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A GENEALOGY 

of the descendants of 

NICHOLAS HARRIS, M. D. 

Fifth in descent from 
THOMAS HARRIS of Providence, R. I. 



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Sketches of the Harris and the following families 
connected by marriage : 

Tew, Hopkins, Smith, Arnold, Tibbits, Waterman, 

Olney, Williams, Carmichael, Canfield, 

Willoughby, Treat and Fowler 



Compiled by 

Mrs. Thomas H. Ham: 
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A GENEALOGY 

of the descendants of 

NICHOLAS HARRIS, M. D., 

Fifth in descent from 

THOMAS HARRIS of Providence, R. I, 



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Sketches of the Harris and the following families 
connected by marriage: 

Tew, Hopkins, Smith, Arnold, Tibbits, Waterman, 

Olney, Williams, Carmichael, Canfield, 

Willoughby, Treat and Fowler 



Compiled t>y 

Mrs. Thomas H. Ham 

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PREFACE 

My first object in compiling this pamphlet was to make 
complete as far as possible the record of my great-grandfather, 
Nicholas Harris ,M. D., to assist Joseph Harris Cowell, M. D., 
of Saginaw, Mich., who is compiling a genealogy of all the 
descendants of both brothers, Thomas and William Harris, 
the first of our family in America Becoming interested in the 
families into which my ancestors married, I concluded to add a 
sketch of each. 

Will each person receiving a copy of this pamphlet kindly 
send to the compiler, 443 State St., Albany, N. Y., any cor- 
rections or additions as to names, dates or facts. 

I would like to thank all who have so patiently answered 
my queries, and only regret that I could find no clue to a few 
lines, but hope this genealogy may fall into the hands of some 
one who may, even now, send me some news of those I can not 
trace. 

CAROLINE I. FOWLER HAM. 



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GENEALOGY 

Thomas 1 Harris, from Deal,* Kent Co., England, d. 
in Providence, R. I., June 7, 1686, m. Elizabeth .... 

b d. in Providence, R. I 

Children: 

2 Thomas 2 b d. Feb. 27, 1711. 

3 Mary 2 b 1639, d. Dec. 14, 1722, m. 

Samuel Whipple (b 1644, d. March 

12, 171 1), son of John and Sarah ( ) Whipple, 

and had five children. 

4 Martha 2 b , d ,1717, 

m. Thomas Field (d. Aug. 10, 1 717) and 

had six children. 

Thomas 2 Harris, of Providence, R. I., m. Nov. 3, 
1664, Elnathan Tew (b. Oct. 15, 1644, d. Jan'y n, 1718 5 ), 
dau. of Richard and Mary (Clarke) Tew, of Newport, R. I. 
Children: 

5 Thomas 3 , b. Aug. 19, 1665, d. Nov. 1, 1741. 

6 Richard 3 , b. Nov. 14, 166S, d 1750. 

7 Nicholas 3 , b. April 15, 1671, d. March 27, 1746.^ 

8 William 3 , b. May 11, 1673, d. Jan'y 14, 1726. 

9 Henry 3 , b. Nov. 10, 1675, d. March 29, 1727. 

10 Amity 3 , b. Dec. 10, 1677, d 

11 Elnathan 3 , b , d , 1749. 

12 Job 3 , b. Jan'y 11, 1681, d 

13 Mary 3 , b , d 

Thomas 3 Harris, m. Phebe Brown (b 

d. Aug. 20, 1723), dau. of Henry and Waite (Waterman) 
Brown, of Providence, R. I. 

Children: 

14 Waite 4 , b. April 21, 1696, d m. Joseph 

Fenner. 

15 Phebe 4 , b. Dec. 16, 1698, d , Unmarried. 

16 John 4 , b. Sept. 17, 1700, d Unmarried. 

a From record of (59) Nicholas Harris, M. D., b. 1749. 

b Date of death taken from tombstone. 

c Date of death taken from Providence Co. Records, Providence, R. I, 



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i7 Henry*, b. Oct. 5, 1702, d. Feb. 16, 1789, m. 
Tabitha Wescott. 

1 8 Thomas*, b. Oct. 21, 1704, d m . Abigail 

Smith. 

19 Charles*, b I?09| d. July 7, 1775, m. 

Mary Hopkins. 

20 * Gideon 4 , b. March 16, 1714, d m . 

Dameris Wescott. 

21 Lydia 4 , b. June 9, 1715, d Unmarried. 

6 Richard 3 Harris, m. 1st, . . . King, (b d. . 

. . 1736), dan. of Clement and Elizabeth King, and had 
nine children. He m. 2nd, Susannah Gorton, widow, but 
had no children. 
Children by first wife: 

22 Uriah 4 , b 

23 Amaziah 4 b. April 13, 1705, d. Nov. 17, 1784, m. 
Dec. 29, 1729, Martha Brown and had 8 children. 

24 Richard 4 , b , d , m . 1st, 

Martha Foster and had 9 children, m. 2d Sarah 
Phillips. 

25 '^Jonathan 4 , b , d. Sept. 24, 17S5, m. 

1 st, Mary Brown and had 6 children, m. 2nd, Anne 
Mowry. 



d One of the children of the above Thomass and Phebe (Brown) 
Harris (20) Gideon* Harris, was Town Clerk at Scituate, R. I. for thirty- 
seven years, and his descendant Daniel Harris Remington, now holds the 
same position Thomasi, Thomas?, Thomass, Gideon*, Asahels, Asahele 
Daniel A?, Ada Ms, Daniel Harris Remingtons. 

e Through Jonathan* Harris, son of Richards, is descended William 
tV r? aVT rlu D- ' U - S - Commissioner of Education at Washington 

*?;.£■ T h ?"^ s1 ' Thomas-', Richards, Jonathan* Jabezs, Stephene, John?, 
Williams, William Torrey Harrisa. 

„. / Though the same Jonathan* Harris, is descended Mrs. Norman 
Dings of East Greenbush, N. Y. Thomasi, Thomas?, Richards, Tonathan* 
Jabez5, Benjamine, Patience?, Laura C. (Smith) Dingss. 

g Also from Jonathan* Harris is descended Walter D. Harris of 
Ulneyville R. I., who has collected much genealogical data of the 
Ihomas Hams line. Thomas 1 , Thomas?, Richards, Jonathan* Abners 
Robert", Robert?, Elisha S«., Walter Do. 

h Through David* Harris, son of above Richards Harris, is de- 
scended Robert? Harris of Pomfret, Conn., who has rendered valuable 
assistance in compiling these early records. Thomas 1 , Thomas-', Richards 
AVu' b u te P? en5 - Ben J' a min Ce., Robert Harris?. Robert Harris' branch 
still has the lime quarries in Smithfield. 7^ miles from Providence "laid 
out to the original Thomas Harris. The grandfather of Robert Harris 
owned 40 ft. of the front lot of the first Thomas Harris' "dwelling place " 



Til m. 

Sarah Collins Ruttenber. 

d. of Th 5 A i il (House) 
Collins of Warwick, R.I. 
jf John Ruttenbe . 
born Oct. 31 , 1S9& 
married Mar. 31, 17^3 , Providence, 
R.I. , by Justice Jabez Brown 

This information ^dded by H. C. Harris, 
1104 Woi ton St., Springfield, 

achusetts. 



26 '"David 4 , b 1714, d. March , 1797. 

27 Preserved*, b. , . . 1718, d. May 6, 1797, m. April 
26, 1744, Martha Mowry and had 9 children. 

28 Elnathan 4 , b , d , m. Joseph Guile 

29 Amity 4 , b , d 

30 Dinah 4 b , d , m. Jacob Smith 

and had 7 children. 

Nicholas 3 Harris, of Providence, R. I.,m 

Anne Hopkins, (b d ), dau. of 

Thomas and Mary (Smith) Hopkins, of Providence, R. I. 
The will of Nicholas Harris was made July 16, 1725, and 
proved in 1746. (See Prov. Co. Records). He left a great 
deal of land to his children, who were: 

31 /Nicholas 4 , b. Oct , d. May 18, 1775,111. 

Hannah Blake. 

32 Thomas 4 , b , d , , m. 1st, 

Mary Rutenberg, 2d, Sarah Collins. 

33 Christopher 4 b. Dec. 13, 1706, d. July 27, 17S1, 
m. his cousin, Anna Harris.* 

34 Jedediah 4 , b , d , m. 

Patience Brown. 

35 Joseph 4 , b , d , m. . . . 

Sweet. 

36 Zeruiah 4 , born March 19, 1701, died 

m. Zuriel Waterman. 

37 Anna 4 , b , d , m. Samuel 

Kilton. 

38 Amity 4 , b , d 



z Joseph Harris* Cowell, M. D., of Saginaw, Mich., and Benjamin 
Covvell of Peoria, 111., (who are compiling a genealogy of both Thomas 
and William Harris,), are also descended from the above Richard^ 
(Thomas 1 , Thomas?, Richards, David*, Josephs, Samuel B<\, Amey Wl, 
Joseph Harris Cowells). Dr. Cowell and his brother are also descended 
from Martha Field, dau. of Thomas 1 Harris, and twice from William 1 
Harris, brother of Thomas 1 Harris, and their cousin, Mrs. Martha Swain, 
still owns a part of original home lot of first Thomas Harris— willed to his 
daughter, Martha Field in 1GS6. 

j Nicholas* Harris, who married Hannah Blake, settled at Wren- 
tham, Mass. His nine children were scattered through Wrentham, Wal- 
pole, Hardwick and Medway, Mass. Thompson, Conn., Keene and 
Harrisville, N. H. From him is descended Albert Hutchinson of Boston, 
and his sister, Isabel Hutchinson, of Harrisville, N. H. (Thomas 1 , Thomas?, 
Nicholass, Nicholas*, Erastuss, Bethuelo, Mary?, Albert HutchinsonS.) 

*Anna 3 Harris was a grand daughter of William Harris and dau. of 
Toleration?. . 



39 Sarah* b , d , m. Israel 

Carpenter. 

40 Mary 4 , b , d 

8 William 3 Harris, m Abigail 

who died Nov. 4, 1724, aged 45 years. 

Children: 

41 Job 4 , b. Aug. 10, 1700, d 

42 Sarah 4 , b. July 4, 1702, d. Oct. 4, 1723. 

43 Dorcas 4 , b. May 16, 1704, d , m. Daniel 

Smith and had 7 children. 

44 Alice 4 , b. June 28, 17 14, d 

9 Henry 3 Harris m Lydia Olney, (b. Jan'y 26, 

1688, d 1727), dau. of Epenetus and Mary 

(Whipple) Olney. 

Children : 

45 Henry 4 , b. Feb. , 1713, d. Aug. 6, 1746, m. Hope 
Hopkins. 

46 Thomas 4 , b , d , 1736. 

47 Lydia 4 . b , d , m. Wm. 

Tillinghast. 

10 Amity 3 Harris, m . . . . Christopher Smith. 

11 Elnathan 3 Harris, m. Nathaniel Brown (b. Sept. 24, 

1689, d 1749), son of Nathaniel and Sarah 

(Jenckes) Brown. 

Children : 

48 William 4 , b , d. at sea. 

49 Sarah 4 , b , d 

50 Elnathan 4 , b , d 

12 Job 3 Harris, m. Mary 

Children: 

51 Abigail, b. about 1727, d. Aug. 10, 1730. 

13 Mary 3 Harris, m. 1st, in 17 12, Gabriel Bernon, (b.. April 
6, 1644, d. Feb. 1, 1736). He was a Huguenot refugee — 
a noted man in his native and adopted country. Had 
three children, m. 2nd, Dec. 23, 1737, Nathaniel Brown 
— no children. 

Children by first marriage: 

52 Susanna 4 , b. . . . 1716, d , m. Joseph 

Crawford. 

53 Mary 4 , b. April 1, 1719, d , m. Gideon 

Crawford. 



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54 Eve*, b , d 

34 Jedediah 4 Harris, b. in Providence, R. I., had land 
deeded to him by his father, Nicholas Harris, in 1732, in 
Scituate, (which town was set off from Providence, Feb. 
1 731), and was made Freeman in Scituate, first Wednes- 
day in May, 1733. Scituate Town Records show that 
Jedediah Harris and wife Patience, deeded land there in 
1755; and in 1758, they again deeded land, but then gave 
Cranston, R. I., as their residence. Cranston Town 
Records show a deed dated April 1, 1773, from Jedediah 
Harris and wife Patience, but this is the last trace I have 
of these ancestors. Jedediah Harris married Patience 
Brown, dau. of Othniel Brown, supposed to be of Chad. 
Brown's family, but am unable, as yet, to prove it. Their 
children, all probably born in Scituate, R. I., were: 

55 Thomas 5 , b , d. ....... m. June 

J 9> x 7 6 3> Phebe, dau. of Elisha Burlingame, of 
Cranston, R. I. 

56 James 5 , b , d m. Feb. 26, 

1758, Dinah, dau. of John Burton, of Cranston, R. I. 

57 Joseph 5 , b , d , m. Mary 

White. 

58 Sarah 5 , b , d 

59 Nicholas 5 , b. Aug. 26, 1749, d. April 22, 1819. 

59 Nicholas 5 Harris, M. D., probably born in Scituate, 
R. I., but later of Cranston, R. I., m. Feb. 25, 1773, Phebe 
Tibbits, (b. May 26, 1748, in Warwick, R. I., d. April 22, 
1837, in North Stephentown, N Y.), dau. of Henry and 
Phebe (Waterman) Tibbits of Warwick, R. I. Dr. 
Nicholas Harris and wife came from Rhode Island up to 
Little Hoosick, afterward called Stephentown, Rens. Co., 
N. Y. That Dr. Harris was a man of learning and cul- 
ture, is shown by his familiarity with Latin and Greek in 
his writings, by the elegance of his diction, and the rare 
beauty of his penmanship. His daughter-in-law, Mrs. 
Nicholas Brown Harris, has often told her grand- 
daughter, the compiler of these records, that he was of 
medium height and build, always the gentleman in his 
conversation and manner, thoughtful and polite in his 
family as well as abroad, and above all, an earnest 
christian. His wife, Phebe Tibbits, was tall and power- 



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fully built, a woman of great force of character and intel- 
lect like her husband. In "Landmarks of Rensselaer 
Co., N. Y.," p. 495, it says: "Dr. Nicholas Harris en- 
joyed an extensive practice, not only in Stephentown, but 
in other towns in Rensselaer Co. and in Massachusetts." 
He served throughout the American Revolution as a pri- 
vate, in Col. Kilian Van Rensselaer's Regiment, Albany 
Co. Militia. "New York in the Revolution," p. 105. 
"He was in four important battles — Battles of Johns- 
town, 1777; Caughuawaga, 1777; Oriskany, Aug. 3, 1777 
and Saratoga, Oct. 7, 1777. For a time he served under 
Col. Willett and was with him at the battle of Oriskany, 
when he made his famous dash on the British camp with 
his two hundred and fifty men, and captured prisoners, 
camp, equipage and five flags." 

Children of Nicholas^ Harris, M.D., and Phebe (Tibbits) 
Harris were: 

60 Henry Tibbits 6 , b. Sept. 18, 1773, d. between 1795 
and 1804. 

61 Cyrus 6 , b. Feb. 4, 1775, d. Feb. 14, 1845. 

62 Augustus 6 , b. July 1776, d. April 5, 1S57. 

63 Nicholas Brown 6 , b. Dec. 11, 1778, d. Dec. 15, 1840. 

64 Frederick Waterman 6 , Aug. 3, 1780, d. July 17, 185 1. 

65 Phebe 6 , b. Nov. 22, 1781, d. Jan'y 7, 1790. 

66 Elizabeth 6 , b. March 26, 1783, d 181 1. 

67 Cynthia 6 , Jan'y 24, 1785, d. Sept. 17, 1799. 

68 Lucinda 6 , b. Aug. 6, 1786, d. April 21, 1S50. 

69 Rhobe 6 , b. July 31, 1788, d. Aug. 15, 1851. 

70 Phebe 6 , b. May 15, 1790, d. Sept. 2, 1858. 

71 Lorenzo 6 , b. Aug. 28, 1792, d. June 19, 1814. 

72 Almyra 6 , Feb. 21, 1794, d. Oct. 14, 1868. 

Note. Almyra never married, and spent the last years of her life 
with her sister Rhobe (Harris) Ferris, at Barry, Pike (60), 111., and is 
buried there. 

The remains of (59) Nicholas^ Harris, M. D., his wife, Phebe (Tibbits) 
Harris and three children (65) Phebe, (67) Cynthia and (71) Lorenzo were 
removed from grave yard on farm in North Stephentown and buried in lot 
belonging to the compiler of these records, in Albany Rural Cemetery, 
Oct. 30, 1902. 

Exact copy of quaint record which was found in the handwriting of 
Nicholas Harris, in front of old book, "Benson on the Epistles," published 
in 1734. This book, now in possession of the compiler of this pamphlet, 



was sent to her by Gilbert L. Vaughan, a grandson of Phebe the Second, 
1 2th child in the following record. 

Nicholas Harris, Born, August 26th, old Stile, in the year of our Lord 
Jesus Christ 1749, on Saturday. 

Phebe Tibbits, Born, May 26th, old Stile, 1748, Thursday. 

Were Married February 25th, 1773, on Thursday. 

The Birth and order of their Children are as follows: 

1st Henry Tibbits Harris, Born September 18, 1773. on Saturday 
Between the Hours of 12 and 1 o'clock P. M. 

2d Cyrus Harris, Born February 4th, 1775, on Saturday About 1 
o'clock Anti-Meridian. 

3d Augustus Harris, Born July 17, 1776, on Wednesday About l / z Past 
6 o'clock Post Meridian. 

4th Roderick Harris, Born December 24th, 1777, on Wednesday And 
Never Saw Light — in this World — But enjoyed it in its Meridian Glory in 
the World of Spirits without Doubt. 

5th Nicholas Brown Harris, Born December the nth, 1778, on Fryday 
Between the Hours of g and 10 o'clock Post Meridian. 

6th Frederick Waterman Harris, Born August the 3d, 17S0, on Thurs- 
day Between the Hours of 7 and 8 o'clock Post Meridian. 

7th Phebe Harris, Born November 22d, 1781, on Thursday Between the 
Hours of 7 and 8 o'clock Post Meridian. 

8th Elizabeth Harris, Born March 26th, 1783, on Wednesday Between 
the Hours of 5 and 6 o'clock Post Meridian. 

9th Cynthia Harris, Born January 24th, 1785, on Monday about 6 
o'clock Anti Meridian. 

10th Lucinda Harris, Born August 6th, 17S6, on Sunday about % past 
6 o'clock Post Meridian. 

nth Rhobe Harris, Born July 31st, 17S8, on Thursday about n o'clock 
Post Meridian. 

12th Phebe Harris the Second, Born May 15th, 1790, on Saturday 
Between the Hours of 7 and 8 o'clock Post Meridian. 

13th Lorenzo Harris, Born August 28th, 1792, on Tuesday About 3 
o'clock Post Meridian. 

14th Almyra Harris, Born February 21st, 1794, on Fryday Between the 
Hours of 5 and Six o'clock Post Meridian. 

60 Henry Tibbits Harris of Stephentown, Rens. Co., N. 
Y., married Lavinia Tracy. They lived in Charleston, 
Montgomery Co., N. Y. , where he died between 1795 and 
1804, judging from the facts that we have a letter written 
by him in 1795; an( ^ m l ^°4 his widow, then the wife of 
Thomas Ostrom, petitions with him to have her brother- 
in-law Nicholas B. Harris, M. D., appointed guardian of 
her two children, who were: 
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74 Lucinda 7 , b , d , m. 

Hiram Roice. Nothing more can be learned of 
these children. 

61 Cyrus 6 Harris of Stephentown, Rens. Co., N. Y., mar- 
ried , 1797, Lucy Spring of Stephentown, N.Y. 

(b , 1780 in Stephentown, N. Y., d. Jan'y 

1856 in Preble, N. Y.) They removed to Preble, N. Y. 
where they both died. 

Children: 

75 Cynthia 7 , b. Sept. 18, 1799, in Stephentown, N. Y.. 
d. Aug. 11, 1862, in Pompey, N. Y. 

76 Loretta 7 , b , 1801, d. March . , 1837, in 

Preble, N. Y., unmarried. 

77 Lucy M. 7 , b , 1803, d. June 12, I878, in 

Preble, N. Y., unmarried. 

78 Cyrus Hamilton 7 , b , 1805, d. Jan'y 13, 

1873, in Preble, N. Y., unmarried. 

79 Naomi Spring 7 , b , 1813, d. April 15, 1884, 

in Preble, N. Y., unmarried. 

80 Nicholas Philander 7 , b , 181 7, d. June 4, 

1828, in Preble, N. Y., unmarried. 

62 Augustus 6 Harris, M. D., of Stephentown, Rens. Co., 
N. Y., married, May 8, 1804, Janitye Winne (b. March 24, 
1787, d. Oct. 3, 1863), dau. of John D. and Janitye (Van 
Wie) Winne of Guilderland, Albany Co., N. Y. Dr. 
Harris practised medicine in Bethlehem, Albany Co., from 
1803 to 181 7 when he moved with his family to Van Buren, 
Onondaga Co., N. Y., where he died. 

Children : 

81 Nicholas Winne 7 , b. Dec. 15, 1804, d. July 30, 1829, 
on board U. S. Ship Java on the Mediterranean Sea. 

82 Phebe 7 , b. July 25, 1S06, d. Jan'y 5, 1880. 

83 Agnes 7 , b. Sept. 20, 180S, d. Nov. 7, 1829. 

84 Maria 7 , b. Mar. 14, 1811, d. May 21, 1829, unmarried. 

85 Lorenzo 7 , b. Sept. iS, 1814, d. Sept. 18, 1832. 

86 Jane W. 7 , b. May 7, 1817, d. June 20, 1S66. 
S7 Elizabeth 7 , b. Oct. 12, 1819, d. Dec. 31, 1823. 

88 John H. 7 , b. Oct. 22, 1821, d. July 20, 1879, at 
Battle Creek, Iowa, and was buried there. 

63 Nicholas Brown 6 Harris, M. D., of Stephentown, Rens. 
Co., N. Y., married, Sept. 7, 1806, Martha Carmichael 



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(b. April 20, 1787, in Sand Lake, N. Y., d. Oct. 12, 1881, 
in Albany, N.Y.) dau. of John and Esther (Canfield) Car- 
michael of Sand Lake, N. Y. Dr. Harris practised medi- 
cine in Sand Lake, N.Y. A Troy daily paper bearing date 
a few days after the death of Dr. Harris in 1840, says — 
" Besides his professional business he has filled many im- 
portant stations in the town, having been elected several 
times to the office of Supervisor and other town offices, 
which he has filled with honor to himself, to the benefit of 
the town and the entire satisfaction of the people whom he 
represented. He was also elected as a member of the 
Legislature of the State of New York in the year 1833. 
We ought also to record here that not only as a physician 
but as a man and neighbor he was admired and esteemed. 
Kind and benevolent to the poor, his house was always 
their home. It was to him that hundreds were in the con- 
stant habit of looking for coimsel and good advice, which 
he invariably stood ready to impart. By his death the 
community in general sustains an irreparable loss." 

Dr. Harris was a man of commanding presence, his 

massive head and fine face expressing his strength of 

character and keen intellect. 

Children of Nicholas Brown Harris, M. D., and Martha 

(Carmichael) Harris: (All born in South Sand Lake, 

Rens. Co., N. Y.) 

89 Cynthia M. N. 7 , b. March 8, 1S09, d. June 6, 1884, 
in Baldwinsville, N. Y. 

90 Elizabeth H. 7 , b. Oct. 18, 1S10, d. Nov. 7, 1851, in 
East Greenbush, N. Y. 

91 Almyra Julietta 7 , b. Jan'y 29. 1813, d. Jan'y 26, 
187 1, North Stephentown, N. Y. 

92 Phebe Waterman Tibbits 7 , b. July 11, 1816, d. 
Jan'y 31, 1847, in South Sand Lake, N. Y. 

93 Martha Carolina 7 , b. June 14, 1823, d. April 3, 1880, 
suddenly in Savannah, Ga.- buried in Albany, N. Y. 

64 Frederick Waterman Harris of Stephentown, Rens. 
Co., N. Y., married, at Charleston, Montgomery Co., N. 
Y., March 1, 1801, Lucy Hamilton (b. June 14, 1781, in 
Berlin, Rens. Co., N. Y. , d. Oct. 24, 1865, in Albany, 

N. Y.) dau. of John Hamilton of and 

Mercy (Cornish) Hamilton of Simsbury, Conn. 



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Children: 

94 Ira?, b. May 31, 1802, in Charleston, N. Y., d. Dec. 

2, 1875, in Albany, N. Y. 

95 Mercy 7 , b. June 26, 1804, in Charleston, N. Y., d. 
July 4, 1887, in Seneca Falls, N. Y. 

96 Elizabeth?, b. Aug. 9, 1806, in Charleston, N. Y., 
d. May 19, 1889, in Warrensburgh, Mo. 

97 Amanda?, b. Aug. 10, 1808, in Preble, N. Y., 
d. Dec. 1835, m Sherburne, N. Y. 

98 Lucy 7 , b. Aug. 9, 1812, in Preble, N. Y., d. Oct. 1, 
1837, in Glens Falls, N. Y., unmarried. 

99 Lucinda 7 , b. Feb. 23, 1817, in Preble, N.Y., d. Dec. 

3, 1895, in Albany, N. Y. 

100 Phebe 7 , b. Feb. 10, 181S, in Preble, N. Y., d. Nov. 
16, 1889, in Reading, Mass. 

101 Hamilton 7 , b. May 1, 1820, in Preble, N.Y., d. Dec. 
14, 1900, in Albany, N. Y. 

102 Clara Tyler", b. April 1, 1822, in Preble, N. Y., un- 
married and lives in Albany, N. Y. 

103 Almyra 7 , b. Aug. 23, 1825, in Preble, N. Y. 

66 Elizabeth 6 Harris of Stephentown, Rens. Co., N. Y. , 
married her own cousin, George Harris, son of James 

and Dinah (Burton) Harris of 

Children: 

104 Almyra 7 , b , d , m. 

Ephraim Kendall.* 

105 James Nicholas 7 , b d m. 

Arena Pope* and published "Rome Telegraph," 
Rome, N. Y., 1832-4. 

106 Elizabeth", b , d 

No further facts can be learned of this family. 

68 Lucinda 6 Harris of Stephentown, Rens. Co. N. Y., 
married, in 18 15, (as his second wife) General Caleb Carr, 
(b. Aug. 6, 1778, in Stephentown, N. Y., d. Feb. 6, 1840, 
in Williamstown, N. Y. ) son of Caleb and Abigail (Very) 
Carr of Stephentown. N. Y , formerly of Greenwich, R. I. 
General Caleb Carr was Colonel of the First Regiment, 
Eighth Brigade of Infantry of N. Y. State, and in 18 14 
when the call came for every able-bodied man to hasten 
to the defense of Plattsburgh, Col. Carr was foremost in 

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action, but the progress was so slow he asked permission 
of the commanding general to take fifteen hundred men 
and hasten on to Plattsburgh. The permission was 
granted, and he arrived in time to help turn the battle in 
our favor, the balance of the troops not arriving until the 
battle was over. For this meritorious conduct Col. Carr 
was promoted to the Generalship of all the State Militia, 
which rank he held as long as he lived. He was a mem- 
ber of the State Legislature one term. 

He moved to Williamstown, N. Y., April 10, 1828, 
where both he and his wife died. 
Their children, all born in Stephentown, N. Y., were: 

107 Cynthia L. 7 , b. Nov. 17, 1816, d. April 2, 1902, in 
Kasoag, N. Y. 

108 Caleb L. 7 , b. July 10, 1S18, d. Feb. 18, 1S68, in 
Williamstown, N. Y. 

109 Lucinda O. 7 , b. July 25, 1821, d. Sept. 13, 1848, in 
Williamstown, N. Y., unmarried. 

no Charlotte L. 7 , b. Oct. 29, 1822, d. May 7, 1840, in 

Williamstown, N. Y., unmarried. 
in Henry T. 7 , b. March 28, 1825, d. Mays, l86 4> in 

Williamstown, N. Y. 

69 Rhobe 6 Harris of Stephentown, Rens. Co., N. Y., mar- 
ried Morris Ferris. 

Children: 

112 Martha A. 7 , b. Aug. 4, 1818, d. Sept. 23, 1841. 

113 Nicholas L. 7 , b. June 3, 1821, d. April 14, 1897. 

70 Phebe 6 Harris, of Stephentown, Rens. Co., N. Y., m. 

Feb. iS, 1S17, David Vaughan, (b d ), 

son of David Vaughan. 

Children: 

114 Lorenzo H. 7 , b. March 13, 1818, d. Dec. 23, 1882, 

m Barnum and had two 

boys and two girls, and lived near 
Burlington, Vt. in 1853 or 54. 

m. James Brown, near Cedar 

Rapids, Iowa, about 1856. 

David and wife Phebe (Harris) Vaughan, son Lorenzo 

family, and daughter Lora, left the vicinity of Burlington, 

Vt., about 1853 or 54, and went to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 

where (116) Lora married and remained; then to Barry, 



115 Nicha Belinda" 

twins. 

116 Lora Philinda 7 



111., in 1856 or 57; then to Woodland, near Hannibal, 
Mo., where the son (114) Lorenzo H. remained. Phebe 
and her husband went back to Barry, 111., where two of 
her sisters (69) Rhobe and (72) Almyra were living 
They died and were buried there. 
75 Cynthia? Harris, of Preble, N. Y., m. May 1, 1823, 
Richard Hiscock, (b. Sept. 26, 1797, at Pompey, N. Y., d! 
March 26, 1889, son of Richard and Sarah (Cody) Hiscock, 
of Pompey, Onondaga Co., N. Y.) They lived at Pompey' 
and their children, all born there were : 

117 Luther Harris 8 , b. May 2, 1824, d. June 7, 1867. 

118 Horace 8 b. Jan'y 12, 1828. i.$- ( 

119 Charles 8 , b. Dec. 4, 1830, d. Oct. 23, 1903. 

120 Frank 8 , b. Nov. 6, 1834. 

81 Nicholas Winne 7 Harris, of Van Buren/Onondaga Co., 
N. Y., m. Charity Van Vliet. 

Children: 

121 Phebe 8 , b. Feb. 24, 1826, married in Indiana. 

122 Eunice Wynkoop 8 , b. June 3, 1827, m 

Gonsaulis, in Indiana. 

82 Phebe 7 Harris, of Van Buren, Onondaga Co., N. Y., m. 
1 st, about Feb., 1829, Morgan L. Stevens and had one 
child. 

123 Maria Louisa 8 , b. Jan'y 4, 1830. 

Married 2nd, about April 1, 1842, Truman White, (b. 
April 10, 1807, d. Nov. 17, 1886) and had four children. 

124 Augustus 8 , b. Oct. 11, 1843, d. Sept. 2, 1845. 

125 Augusta 8 , b. Nov. 2, 1845. 

126 Jonas 8 , b. Aug. 22, 1847. 

127 Gerrilda V 8 ., b. Aug. 18, 1850, d. Dec. 22, 1873, in 
Brooklyn and buried at Cypress Hill, L. I. 

83 Agnes 7 Harris, of Van Buren, Onondaga Co. N. Y., m. 
Samuel S. Bryant and had one child: 

128 Agnes J. 8, b. Oct. 26, 1829, at Van Buren, N. Y. 
d. Dec. 17, 1888, at Lansing, Mich. 

86 Jane W. 7 Harris, of Van Buren, Onondaga Co., N. Y., 
m. Dec. 27, 1838, Rev. Hamilton Brown, a Methodist 
minister, (b. July 8, 1815, d. Feb. 13, 1897.) 
Children : 

129 Lorenzo Harris 8 , b. Nov. 21, 1839, d. Dec. 3, 1901, 
at Salina, N. Y. 



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130 Henry H. 8 , b. March 27, 1844. 

88 John Henry" Harris, of Van Buren, Onondaga Co., 
N. Y., m. April 12, 1843, Sophia Jones, (b. Oct. 9, 1820, 
at Onondaga Hill, N. Y., d. Feb. 28, 1893, at Bowen's 
Corners, N. Y., dau. of William and Sarah ( ) 
Jones, of Van Buren, N. Y. ) Children all born at Van 
Buren, N. Y. , were: 

131 Eliza Frances 8 , b. Jan'y 17, 1844. 

132 Althea E. 8 , b. May 10, 1846, d. Nov. 5, 18S7, at 
Brookfield, N. Y. 

132 Ella J. § J T 

n • P8 bl J une 4> l8 5°- 

133 Harris E. 8 ) 

135 Emmagene 8 , b. Feb. 5, 1853. 

136 Edwin Jones 8 , b. Oct 7, 1S55. 

89 Cynthia M. N. 7 Harris of South Sand Lake, Rens. Co., 
N. Y., Married, Oct. 6, 1831, James W. Elliot (b. Oct. 2, 
1807, d. March 24, 1885), son of "William and Polly 
(Morehouse) Elliot of East Greenbush, N. Y. They lived 
at Baldwinsville, Onondaga Co., N. Y. , where they both 
died. 

Children: 

137 James H. 8 , b. March 18, 1833, d. Sept. 24, 1872, at 
Baldwinsville, N. Y. 

138 Mary M. 8 , b. Sept. 30, 1840. 

139 William A. 8 , b. Nov. 22, 1844, 'd. Oct. 13, 1845, at 
Baldwinsville, N. Y. 

140 Helen Augusta 8 , b. March 25, 1850. Unmarried. 

90 Elizabeth H". Harris, of South Sand Lake, Rens. Co., N. 
Y., m. Dec. 22, 1828, David Elliott, M. D. (b. Feb. 3, 1805, 
d. Dec. 5, 1891, son of William and Polly (Morehouse) 
Elliot, of East Greenbush, Rens. Co., N. Y.) They 
settled at East Greenbush, where they both died. 

Children : 

141 Nicholas Brown Harris 8 , b. Sept. 16, 1S29, d. July 
21, 1S87, in East Greenbush. 

142 William Wallace 8 , b. Feb. 11, 1832, d. Nov. 6, 1855, 
in East Greenbush. 

143 Mary E. 8 , b. July 11, 1836, d. June 12, 1892, in East 
Greenbush. 

144 David M. 8 , b. Jan'y 5, 1838. 

145 James B. 8 , b. Nov. 26, 1840. 



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146 Frank D. 8 , b. June 10, 1844, d. July , 1844. 

147 Charles A. 8 , b. April 5, 1847. 

148 Harriet A. 8 , b. July 21, 1S49, d. Dec. 28, 1S97, in 
New York, buried in East Greenbush, N. Y. 

149 Julius H.s f b Qct 2Q d. March 12, 1855. 

150 Julia E.8 [ 5 ' d. May 18, 1857. 

91 Almyra J. 7 Harris, of South Sand Lake, Rens. Co., 
N. Y., m. Sept. 7, 1837, Henry T. Douglas, (b. Sept. 28, 
18 1 3, d. Oct. 19, 1 888, son of William B. and Maria 
(Dibble) Douglas, of Stephentown, Rens. Co. N. Y. ) 
They lived in North Stephentown, Rens. Co., N. Y., and 
both died there. Their children, born there, were : 

151 William Henry 8 , b. Dec. 25, 1839, d. March 22, 1852. 

152 Martha Carolina 8 , b. Jan'y 6, 1846. 

153 Edward Wyllis 8 , b. Jan'y 27, 1856. 

93 Martha Carolina 7 Harris, of South Sand Lake, Rens. 
Co., N. Y., m. Aug. 29, 1850, Amos Fowler, M. D. 
(b. July 5, 1820, d. Oct. 23, 1895,) son of Alvin and Olive 
(Lord) Fowler, of Cohocton, N. Y. 

Amos Fowler was a descendent of "Mr. "William Fowler, 
First Magistrate of New Haven Colony, and of Thomas 
and Dorothy Lord, among the first settlers of Hartford, 
Conn. His grandfather, Mark Fowler, came from 
Lebanon, Conn., to Herkimer Co., N. Y., then a wilder- 
ness. Amos Fowler was educated in the public schools 
and academies of Fayetteville and Victory, N. Y., 
attended one course of lectures at Geneva Medical 
College, then went to New York and completed his 
course, graduating from the University of the City of 
New York in 1846. He began the practice of medicine 
in Memphis, N. Y. In 1850, when he married, he went 
to South Sand Lake, N. Y., and finally in 1S54, settled in 
Albany, where he soon had a very extensive practice, 
which continued until his death, Oct. 23, 1895. Dr. 
Fowler was Vice-President of the Albany County Medical 
Society, was a member of the State Medical Society and 
a delegate to that body and other medical conventions. 
Children of M. C. Harris and Amos Fowler, M. D. were: 

154 Warren Hamilton 8 , b. Sept. 13, 1852, d. Jan'y 23, 
1886, at Albany, N. Y. He was educated at the 
Albany Boys' Academy, and then went to Amherst 



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College, but failing health compelled him to give 
tip his cherished plans for a college training. When 
he grew stronger, he studied medicine with his 
father, attending lectures one winter at the Univer- 
sity of New York, and the next at the Jefferson Med- 
ical College in Philadelphia, Pa., graduating from 
there March 12, 1879. He settled in Albany and 
soon had a large practice, which proved too great a 
strain for his physical strength and he died in his 
early manhood, full of promise for the profession 
which he so loved, and devoted himself to so con- 
scientiously. He never married. 

155 Caroline Isabella 8 , b. Sept. 17, 1S57. 

156 Martha Harris 8 , b. April 19, 1861, d. Jan'y 22, 1864. 

157 Frank Harris 8 , b. March 17, 1865, d. June 28, 1865. 
94 Ira 7 Harris, b. at Charleston, Montgomery Co., N. Y., 

graduated at Union College with first honors, in 1824, 
then made his home in Albany, practicing law there. 
His public life began with an election to the Assembly in 
1844. He was chosen Senator in 1846, and in the same 
year, was elected to the Constitutional Convention, which 
framed the Constitution now, with some modification in 
force. In 1S47, he was elected a Judge of the State 
Supreme Court and held the position for twelve years. 
The published opinions of Judge Harris, during the twelve 
years he sat upon the bench, are continually referred to 
for lucid exhibition of the principles of the law. They 
evince extensive learning and keen discernment, power 
of analysis and strength of reasoning. In 1861, he was 
elected to the Senate of the United States. William M. 
Evarts and Horace Greeley were his competitors, and he 
was the successor of William H. Seward. Entering the 
Senate just at the outbreak of the rebellion, he served 
throughout that momentous period of our history, and 
contributed, by his counsels, his voice and his vote to the 
triumph of the Union cause. He was most efficient in 
raising a regiment of cavalry for the Union, which was 
called after his name, as was also another body of troops. 
He was the intimate and trusted friend of President 
Lincoln, and was among those chosen from the Senate 
to accompany the remains of the beloved president to 



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their final resting place. As a senator, Judge Harris was 
placed upon the important committees on foreign re- 
lations and judiciary, and in the former, was closely- 
associated with Senator Sumner, to whom he became 
greatly attached. Senator Harris was also a member of 
the Select Joint Committee on the Southern States. The 
Albany Argus of Dec. 3, 1875, the day after the death of 
Judge Harris, said : "Ira Harris was a great man in all 
the essentials and qualities of greatness. He was great 
in native endowments, in power of application, and in 
intellect, bearing upon his massive shoulders, a head 
richly grand in its powers — he was great in his aspirations 
for his desire was simply to know and do right. He was 
great in nobility of character, in his intuitions, and sym- 
pathies, and in the calm equipoise of his nature, and more 
than all, great in all the elements of christian manhood. 
He was courtly in bearing and manner, yet dignified 
and deferential to all." Judge Harris was a trustee of 
Union College, Chancellor of Rochester University from 
its foundation until his death. A trustee of Vassar 
College, and a professor of the Albany Law School for 
the last twenty years of his life. He married 1st, about 
1829, Clarissa Tubbs, (b. Oct. 16, 1801, in Homer, N. Y., 
d. Sept. 20, 1830, in Albany, N. Y.) and had one child: 

158 Frederick B. 8 , b. June 20, 1830, d. Sept. 26, 1830, 
in Albany. 

He m. 2nd, about 1832, Louisa Tubbs, (b. Oct. 27, 1809 
in Homer, N. Y., d. May 18, 1845 in Albany, N. Y.) 
Children, all born in Albany, N. Y. : 

159 Clara Hamilton 8 , b. Sept. 9, 1834, d. Dec. 25, 1883, 
in Germany. 

160 Amanda Judson 8 , b. Jan'y 5, 1836, d. April 5, 1902, 
in Jacksonville, Fla. 

161 William Hamilton 8 , b. June 6, 1838, d. Nov. 6, 1895, 
in Genoa, Italy. 

162 Louise Hannah 8 , b. Dec. 12, 1840, d. June 15, 1903, 
at Bogota, N. J. Unmarried. 

163 Ira 8 , b. May 4, 1843. 

He married 3d, Aug. 1, 1848, Pauline Pinney Rathbone, 
(widow of J. L. Rathbone of Albany.) She was b. May 
27, 1809, d. Jan'y 15, 1894, and was the dau. of Joel and 
Violet (Bliss) Pinney of Somers, Conn. 



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Child : 

164 Pauline 8 , b. Jan'y n, 1850, in Albany. 

95 Mercy 7 Harris, b. at Charleston, Montgomery Co., N. Y. 
m. Jan'y 11, 1S25, Cyrus Garnsey of Clifton Park, N. Y. 
(b. Oct. 23, 1800, d. June 14, 1827), son of Nathan and 
Lydia (Barnes) Garnsey of Clifton Park, N. Y. 

Children : 

165 Lucy H. 8 , b. Nov. 27, 1S25, d. April n, 1848. 

166 Cyrus 8 , b. Sept. 28, 1S27. 

96 Elizabeth 7 Harris, b. at Charleston, Montgomery Co., 

N. Y. , m. June 5, 1829, Rev. John Sayre, (b 

1797, d lS 5i), son of Rev. David and 

(Roberts) Sayre, of New Jersey. 

Child: 

167 Amanda Clara 8 , b. March 22, 1831, at Oswego, N.Y. 

97 Amanda 7 Harris, b. at Preble, Cortland Co., N. Y., m. 
Roswell Judson, a lawyer of Sherburne, N. Y. They 
resided in Sherburne, where Mrs. Judson died. No 
children. 

99 Lucinda 7 Harris, b. at Preble, N. Y., m. Sept. , 1847, 
Stephen O. Shepard, (b. Aug. 4, 18 16, in Salem, Mass., 
d. March 2, 1897 in Albany, N. Y., son of Stephen Webb 
and Eliza (Rea) Shepard. They always resided in 
Albany and both died there. 
Children: 

168 Osgood Harris 8 , b. Oct. 26, 1848. Graduate of 
Brown University. 

169 John Rathbone 8 , b. Dec. 9, 1850. 

100 Phebe 7 Harris, was for eight years the teacher of 
Rhetoric and Composition in the Albany Female Aca- 
demy, from which she graduated in 1835. She also wrote 
many books for children and contributed to current 
literature. She m. July 25, 1844, Charles Abner Phelps, 
M. D. (b. Oct. 19, 1820, d. May 2, 1902,) son of Abner 
and Delia Hubbell (Clark) Phelps of Boston, Mass. 
Children: 

170 Charles Harris 8 , b. Sept. 14, 1845 in Boston, Mass. 

171 Delia Clark 8 , b. Sept. 1, 1848 in Boston, Mass. 

172 Louise Phebe 8 , b. Oct. 17, 1850 in Boston, Mass., d. 
Aug. , 1853. 

173 Florence L. 8 , b. Nov. 23, 1854 in Boston, Mass. 



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ioi Hamilton" Harris, b. at Preble, Cortland Co., N. Y., 
was a graduate of Union College with high honors, in 
1 841. He then studied law with his brother, Hon. Ira 
Harris, was admitted to the bar in 1845, and rapidly- 
acquired a high reputation as an able and accomplished 
lawyer. In 1853 Mr. Harris was elected district attorney 
of Albany County, serving until 1857. In 1875 he was 
elected to the State Senate, and took a leading part in the 
deliberations of that body for two terms. In 1884 he 
was one of the Republican electors on the State ticket. 
Mr. Harris possessed keen literary taste and culture and 
great ability as a writer, lecturer and public speaker. 
Several of his addresses have been published, notably : 
" Politics and Literature," " The Tower of London," and 
"Self Effort." In 1885 he was unanimously elected a 
member of the Regents of the University of the State of 
New York. Mr. Harris was a man of commanding 
presence, his massive head and face indicating great force 
of character; his eye was full and expressive, while his 
forehead showed great intellectuality; there was indicated 
great strength, even in repose; and in animation, there 
was a force and an earnestness in most unusual degree. 
As a forensic and political orator, he occupied a high 
position in the history of our city, our state and our coun- 
try. The degree of L.L. D. was in 1891, conferred upon 
Mr. Harris, by Union College. He m. May 20, 1850, in 
Buffalo, N. Y., Lucy Moody Rogers, (b. at Portsmouth, 
N. H., Sept. 13, 1829, d. at Albany, N. Y., Dec. n, 1898), 
dau. of Nathaniel and Phebe Ann (Walker) Rogers of 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
Children, b. in Albany, N. Y. 

174 Frederick 8 , b. June 14, 1854, d. April 22, 1903, in 
Albany, N. Y. 

175 Lucy Hamilton 8 , b. Sept. 27, 1858, d. April 22, 
1897, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 

103 Almira 7 Harris, b. at Preble, N. Y., m. Sept. 14, 
l8 53. James Douglas Warner (b. April 3, 1826, son of 
Ebenezer Conant Warner and Althea E. (Northrope) 
Warner of Clay Corners, N. Y. ) They live in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. 



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Children: 

176 Charles D.s, b. July 13, 1854. 

177 Lucy Hamilton 8 , b. Sept. 19, 1856. 

178 Clara Harris 8 , b. Sept. 27, 1858. 

179 William H. Harris 8 , b. March 18, 1862. 

180 Mary Elizabeth 8 , b. Nov. 28, 1864, d. Jan'y 22, 1866. 
107 Cynthia L. 7 Carr, of Williamstown, Oswego Co., N. Y., 

m. Sept. 9, 1857, Aaron B. Gilbert of Williamstown, 

N. Y. ( b , 1807, d , 1879), son of 

Ebenezer and Laura (Hinman) Gilbert of Trenton, N. Y. 
They lived at Kasoag, near Oswego, N. Y. Had no 
children. 
10S Caleb Lorenzo 7 Carr, of Williamstown, N. Y., m. 
March 22, 1858, Frances C. Baker of Sodus, N. Y. 
(b July 20, 1835.) 
Children, born in Williamstown, N. Y. : 
1S1 Lucian Caleb 8 , b. May 9, 1859. 

182 Clara Lucinda 8 , b. April 14, 1S61. 

183 Clarence Henry 8 , b. March 18, 1865. 

1 1 1 Henry Tibbits 7 Carr. of Williamstown, N. Y., married, 
April 10, 1850, Elsie A. Baker of Sodus, N. Y. 
Children : 

184 Caleb G. 8 , b. Sept. 1, 1852, at Williamstown, N. Y. 

185 Lottie 8 , b. Feb. 15, 1855, at Williamstown, N. Y., 
d. Dec. 24, 1859. 

186 Sarah L. 8 , b. April n, 1861, at Williamstown, 
N. Y., d. Oct. — , 1900. 

187 Nelson H. 8 , b. April 10, 1863, at Williamstown, N. Y. 

113 Nicholas Londree 7 Ferris, m , Mary 

Piper (b. June 4, 1821, at Hillsboro, N. H., d. May 16, 
1893, at Barry. Pike Co., 111.) dau. of John Piper. They 
lived at Barry, 111., died and are buried there. 

Child : 

188 William Harvey 8 , b. Sept. 15, 185 1, in Barry, 111. 

114 Lorenzo" H. Vaughan, m. in Burlington, Vt., June 2, 
1846, Jane M. Briggs (born Feb 23, 1827.) 

Children: 

189 Gilbert L. 8 , b. Dec. 24, 1851, at Burlington, Yt. 

190 Alma J. 8 , b. Sept. 26, i860, at Palmyra, Mo. 

191 George W. 8 , b. Feb. 28, 1S62, at Palmyra, Mo. 

192 Clara F. 8 , b. Dec. 25, 1863, at Palmyra, Mo. 



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ii7 Luther Harris 8 Hiscock, was a prominent lawyer of 
Syracuse, N. Y. ; Surrogate of Onondaga Co. ; member 
of Assembly, 1865-7; and was a member of the Constitu- 
tional Convention at the time of his death in 1867. He 
m. Oct. 1, 1850, Lucy Bridgman (b. Feb. 13, 1828, 
d. Feb. 24, 1 861) dau. of Isaac and Lucy (Chandler) 
Bridgman of Hanover, N. H. 
Children : 
193 Helen Cornelia 9 , b. May 28, 1852, in Syracuse, N. Y. 
184 Frank Harris 9 , b. April 16, 1856, in Syracuse, N.Y. 

118 Horace 8 Hiscock, m. April 6, 1870, Kate E. Hol- 
brook (b. July 23, 1835), dau. of Adolphus and Caty 
(Jordan) Holbrook of Pompey, Onondaga Co., N. Y. 
They are living on the old homestead at Preble, N. Y. 
No children. 

119 Charles 8 Hiscock was superintendent of Onondaga Salt 
Springs, Syracuse, N. Y., m. Sept. 3, 1S61, Letitia 
Austin) b. July 16, 1S38) dau. of Edward G. and Amanda 
(McCulloch) Austin of Marcellus, N. Y. 

Child, b. in Marcellus, N. Y. ; 

195 Clara 9 , b. Oct. 12, 1863. 

120 Frank 8 Hiscock is now a prominent lawyer of Syracuse, 
N. Y. He has been District Attorney for Onondaga Co. ; 
member of Congress for four terms ; and United States 
Senator. He m. Nov. 22, 1859, Cornelia King (b. 
Dec. 17, 1835) dau. of Albert and Lucy (Winslow) King 
of Tully, N. Y. 

Children, born in Syracuse, N. Y. : 

196 Albert King 9 , b. Oct. 21, 1S61. 

197 Fidello King 9 , b. April 13, 1869. Unmarried and 
resides at Yakima, Wash. 

123 Maria Louisa 8 Stevens, m. May 2, 1853, Thomas 
W. Dunham of Palmyra, N. Y. (b. Sept. 26, 1829, d. 
April 2, 1S90). Mrs. Dunham is now living at Nixa, 
Christian Co,, Mo. 
Children : 

198 Augusta Louise 9 , b. Feb. 22, 1S54, in Palmyra, 
N. Y., d Aug. 7, 1S54. 

199 Harris Winne 9 , b. July 28, 1855, in Palmyra, N. Y., 
d. March 12, 1856. 



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200 Adelaide Jessie 9 , b. June n, 1858, near Ionia, Mich, 
d. Nov. 9, 1896. 

201 Vernon Leroy 9 , b. May 14, 1863, near Ionia, Mich. 

202 Minard.Stevens 9 , b. Dec. 12, 1864, near Ionia, Mich. 

203 Nellie Grace 9 , b. Nov. 20, 1870, in Ozark, Mo. 

125 Augusta 8 White, m. Dec. 25, 1889, Rev. Wm. V. 
McNeely of Nixa, Mo. (b. Feb. 22, 1S31, d. March 5, 
1899). No children. Mrs. McNeely is now living in 
Springfield, Mo. 

127 Gerrilda V. 8 White, m. July 30, 1872, Thomas Woods, 
of Brooklyn, who died in 1887. 

Child: 

204 Louise G. V. 9 , b. Nov. 18, 1873, d. June 6, 1886. 

128 Agnes J. 8 Bryant, m. June 7, 1849, Elihu Peck, (b. 
June 14, 1826, d. April 1, 1886). 

Children: 

205 Jane A. 9 , b. April 25, 1850, at Amboy, N. Y. 

206 Emma Louise 9 , b. Nov. 30, 1853, at Amboy, N. Y. 

207 Flora Isadore 9 , b. Feb. 10, 1857, at Delta, Mich., d. 
Aug. 13, 1 90 1, at Niles, Mich. 

129 Lorenzo Harris 8 Brown, lived at North Syracuse, N. Y. 
He m. 1st, Josephine Baum, (b. Aug. 4, 1848, d. March 
31, 1870), and had one child: 

208 Harry A. 9 , b. March 13, 1870, d. Jan'y 2, 1877. 

He m. 2nd, April 18, 1S71, Wealthy J. Sherwood, (b. 
Sept. 11, 1844, d ), and had one child: 

209 Lena J. 9 , b. June 4, 1878. 

130 Henry Harris 8 Brown, served in the civil war. He 
enlisted Aug. 17, 1864, at Baldwinsville, N. Y., mustered 
in at Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 21, 1864; belonged to Co. A, 
185th Regiment, N. Y. Vol. Inf., 1st Brigade, 1st Divis- 
ion, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac; was dis- 
charged near Washington, D. C, May 30, 1S65. He is 
now living at Vermontville, Mich. He m. 1st, April 2, 
1868, at Fulton, N. Y., Delia E. Fralick, (b. Dec. 2, 1849, 
in Oswego Co., N. Y., d. July 19, 1881, in Vermontville, 
Mich., he m. 2nd, Dec. 12, 1881, at Vermontville, Mich., 
Gertrude E. Goodwin, (b. Aug. 21, 1866, near Saline, 
Mich.) 

Children, born at Vermontville, Mich. : 

210 Lorie Harris 9 , b. Dec. 15, 1S82, d. Jan'y 18, 1891. 



Aug. 


9, 1876, 


at 


B owen's 


■ 3°, 


1869, James 


Delevan 


V. II, 


1890). 







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211 Homer Goodwin 9 , b. Jan'y 21, 1885. 

212 Gladys Moore 9 , b. Nov. 1, 1886. 

213 Claude Henry 9 , b. Dec. 1, 18S9. 

214 Lelia Jane 9 , b. May 3, 1892. 

215 Harold Asa 9 , b. June 5, 1896. 

131 Eliza Frances 8 Harris, m. March 26, 1S74, Lewis Ham- 
ilton Hutchins, (b. July 30, 1833, at Granby, N. Y., son 
of David and Electa Hutchins, of Granby, N. Y.) They 
live at Oswego Falls, N. Y., and have one child: 

216 Genevra Elnettie 9 , b. 
Corners, N. Y. 

132 Althea E. 8 Harris, m. Nov. 
Dix, (b. April 23, 1835, d. Nov. 

Children, b. at Brookfield, N. Y. : 

217 Roba Frances 9 , b. Jan'y 1, 1871. 

218 Cora E. 9 , b. March 2, 1873, d. Nov. 16, 1887. 

219 May Belle 9 , b. May 14, 1875. 

220 Edith Sophia 9 , b. March 29, 187S. 

221 Ethel Agnes 9 , b. Oct. 24, 1S83. 

133 Ella J. 8 Harris, m. Nov. 6, 1869, Abram Lake, (b. June 
27, 1847, d. April 20, 1896). 

Children: 

222 Merton E. 9 , b. Oct. 1, 1870. 

223 Lela Byrle 9 , b. Aug. 20, 1891. 

134 Harris Edgar 8 Harris, m. 1st. Feb. 18, 1875, DeEtte 
Brown (b. Nov. 12, 1854, d. Aug. 5, 1S99.) He lives at 
Brookfield, N. Y. m. 2nd, March 12, 1903, Fannie 
Reynolds. 

Children : 

224 Edwin Arthur 9 , b Feb. 10, 1876. 

225 John Brown 9 , b. April 14, 1878. 

226 Lewis Henry 9 , b. Nov! 24, 1883. 

135 Emmagene 8 Harris, m. May 14, 1881, Josiah Betts, (b. 
June 22, 1 85 7). They live in Syracuse, N. Y., and have no 
children, but have with them their niece (216) Edith S. 
Dix. 

136 Edwin Jones 8 Harris, m. April 25, 1886, Ella May 
Lewis (b. Nov. 8, 1857, at Scott, Iowa). They live at 
Anthen, Woodbury Co., Iowa. 

Children: 

227 John Henry 9 , b. April 13, 1887. 



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228 Elnetta Sophia 9 , b. Dec. 16, 1889. 

229 Ray Edwin 9 , b. April 22, 1891. 

230 Carlton E. 9 , b. June 1, 1895, d. Sept. 14, 1896. 

231 Alvin Carey 9 , b. June 30, 1898. 

232 Muriel Frances 9 , b. Jan'y 18, 1902. 

137 James Harris 8 Elliot, lived at Baldwinsville, N. Y., m. 
June 24, 1853, Jane Jones, (b. Sept. 14, 1830, d. April 24, 
1871). No Children. 

138 Mary M. 9 Elliot, lives at Baldwinsville, N. Y., m. Jan'y 
8, 1861, William H. Lee, (b. Dec. 10, 1835, d - May 9, 
1893), son of George and Sabrina (Kocker) Lee, of New 
Bridge, Onondaga Co., N. Y. 

Children : 

233 James Elliot 9 , b. Feb. 3, 1863. 

234 Harry Forest 9 , b. July 30, 1867. 

141 Nicholas Brown Harris 8 Elliot, lived at East Green- 
bush, N. Y., m. Dec. 1, 1853, Margaret Ryesdorf, (b. Sept. 

26, 1833, ), dau. of Leonard L. and Sarah 

M. (Butts) Ryesdorf, of East Greenbush, N. Y. 
Children, born in East Greenbush, N. Y. : 

235 Eliza M. 9 b. March 24, 1855, d. June n, 1862. 

236 William H. 9 , b. July 27, 1858. 

237 Charlotte A. 9 , b. May 9, i860. 

238 Cora B. 9 , b. Oct, 18, 1861, d. April 22, 1895. 

239 Charles I. 9 , b. April 4, 1863, d. Aug. 29, 1863. 

240 Edward 9 , b. Feb. 9, 1865, d. June 27, 1865. 

241 Maria T. 9 , b. Jan'y 9, 1868, d. July 18, 1885. 

242 Jennie M. 9 , b. July 29, 1869. 

243 Mabel 9 , b. Feb. 13, 1876. 

143 Mary E. 8 Elliot, of East Greenbush, N. Y., m. Jan'y 18, 

1855, Stephen Hicks, (b. April n, 1828, , son 

of William and Hannah R. Hicks, of Schodack, N. Y.) 

Children, b. in East Greenbush, N. Y. : 

244 Jesse 9 , b. Oct. 1, 1863, d. Feb. 22, 1883. 

245 Bertha 9 , b. March 25, 1868, d. Aug. 12, 1870. 

246 David Elliot 9 , b. June 7, 1872. 

144 David M. 8 Elliot, lives at East Greenbush, N. Y., 
m. Jan'y 27, 1863, Mary E. Carter (b. Feb. 10, 1846) 
dau. of Edward and Elizabeth N. (Sherman) Carter of 
East Greenbush, N. Y. 



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Children, b. in East Greenbush, N. Y. : 

247 William W. 9 , b. Jan'y 15, 1864. 

248 David Edwards, b. Oct. 19, 1866. 

249 Harris N. 9 , b. Sept. 29, 1870. 

250 Lilian M. 9 , b. March 9, 1872. 

251 Sherman C. 9 , b. Aug. 24, 1873. 

252 Mary C 9 , b. June 20, 1877, d. April 1, 1885. 

253 Frederick W. 9 , b. July 12, 1881. 

145 James B. 8 Elliot, lives at East Greenbush, N. Y. , m. 
Dec. 21, 187 1, Catharine E. Craver (b. Nov. 20, 1845) 
dau. of John A. and Mary A. (Gage) Craver of West Sand 
Lake, N. Y. 
Children, b. in East Greenbush, N. Y. : 

254 Ida May 9 , b. Feb. 11, 1875, d. Sept. 30, 1879. 

255 Douglas J. 9 , b. Jan'y 7, 1877, 

256 Hamilton Harris 9 , b. April 27, 1878. 

257 Lulu 9 , b. April 18, 18S1. 

258 Anna I. 9 , b Jan'y 23, 1883. 

259 Clarence 9 , b. Dec. 7, 1884. 

260 James B. 9 , b. Jan'y 29, 1886. 

261 John A. 9 , b. May 30, 1889. 

147 Charles A. 8 Elliot, lives at East Greenbush, N. Y., 
m. Nov. 1, 1870, Maria Crannell (b. Oct. 3, 1851, d. 
July 10, 1899) dau. of Wyant and Fanny (Jackson) Cran- 
nell of Greenbush, N. Y. 

Children: 

262 Burton B. W. 9 , b. Dec. 27, 1872, 

263 Charles W. 9 , b. April 20, 1877, d. July 29, 1877. 

264 Adella C. 9 , b. June 15, 18S2. 

148 Harriet A. 8 Elliott, of East Greenbush, N. Y., m. 
Nov. 15, 1871, Earl Mandaville (b. Aug. 6, 1848, at Kin- 
derhook, N. Y.) son of James and Jane (Patterson) Man- 
daville of Kinderhook, N. Y. 

Child: 

265 George Earl 9 , b. Aug. 20, 1872, at East Greenbush, 
N. Y. 

152 Martha Carolina 8 Douglas, of North Stephentown, 
N. Y. , m. January 6, 1869, William Asa Gile (b. 
Oct. 3, 1844) son of Lorenzo Gile, M. D., and Eliza A. 
(Dean) Gile of Canaan, N. Y. They live at North 
Stephentown, N. Y., and their children were born there: 



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266 Harriet Eliza 9 , b. Oct. 8, 1870, d. Oct. 18, 1890. 

267 Almyra Harris 9 , b. Feb. 14, 1874. 

268 Caroline Fowler Douglas 9 , b. Nov. 29, 1877. 

153 Edward Wyllis 8 Douglas, graduate of Madison Univer- 
sity (now Colgate) in 1877, is a prominent lawyer at 
Troy, N. Y. He m. Oct. 14, 1880, Harriet M. Osborn 
(b. June 27, 1S55) dau. of Prof. Lucian M. and Phebe 
(Brown) Osborn of Hamilton, N. Y. 
Children, b. at Troy, N. Y. : 

269 Almyra Harris 9 , b. Nov. 22, 1881. 

270 Henry T. 9 , b. Dec. 18, 1882, d. June 15, 1S96. 

271 Edward Osborn 9 , b, Jan'y 12, 1896. 

155 Caroline Isabella 8 Fowler, lives in Albany, N. Y., 
m. Sept. 10, 1896, Thomas H. Ham, a lawyer, (b. 
Aug. 29, 1856) son of Robert Cleve Ham and Rebecca J. 
(Parkyn) Ham of Albany, N. Y., both formerly of Wade- 
bridge, Cornwall, England. No children. 

159 Clara Hamilton 8 Harris, of Albany, N. Y., m. July 
12, 1867, Henry Reed Rathbone, son of J. L. and 
Pauline Noyes (Pinney) Rathbone of Albany, N. Y. 

Before their marriage, Mr. Rathbone and Miss Harris 
were in the box with President Lincoln when he was 
assassinated, Mr. Rathbone catching Booth by his foot as 
he jumped from the box after shooting the President and 
thus impeded his flight . Mr. and Mrs. 

Rathbone lived many years in Washington,. D. C. , later 
in Germany. 
Children, b. in Washington, D. C. : 

272 Henry Riggs 9 , b. Feb. 12, 1870. 

273 Gerald Laurence 9 , b. Aug. 26, 1871, lives in San 
Francisco, Cal. 

274 Clara Pauline 9 , b. Sept. 15, 1872. 

160 Amanda Judson 8 Harris, of Albany, N. Y., m. May 
2 5> : S65, Thomas Ewing Miller of Columbus, Ohio. 

Children, all born in Columbus, Ohio: 

275 Ira Harris 9 , b. Feb. 23, 1866. 

276 Thomas Ewing, Jr. 9 , b. Jan'y 6, 1868, d. Oct. 31, 
1885. 

277 Theron Butler 9 , b. Jan'y 5, 1870. 

278 Eleanor 9 , b. Aug. 6, 1872, d. Feb. 10, 1S73. 

279 Louis Gillespie 9 , b. June 4, 1874. 



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161 William Hamilton 8 Harris, of Albany, N. Y., gradu- 
ated, July, 1857, from the U. S. Military Academy at 
West Point, Brevet Second Lieut., Ordnance, June 24, 
1 861; Second Lieut., Aug. 3, 1861 ; First Lieut., Sept. 
14, 1862; Captain, June 1, 1863; discharged Sept. 21, 
1870. Brevet Rank: Brevet Major and Brevet Lieut. 
Colonel Aug 1, 1864, for gallant and efficient service in 
the battles from the Rapidan to Petersburg, Va. 

He married, Oct. 18, 1864, Emma Hazen Witt, dau. of 
Stillman and Eliza (Douglas) Witt of Cleveland, Ohio. 
They lived in Cleveland and later in New York City. 
Children: 

280 Edith Louise 9 , b. Oct. 24, 1865. 

281 Emma Witt 9 , b. Dec. 30, 1S70. 

163 Ira 8 Harris, of Albany, N. Y., graduated Sept. 22, i860, 
from U. S. Naval Academy, at Annapolis, Md., was 
Ensign May 28, 1S63; Lieutenant, July 25, 1866; Lieut. 
Commander, March 12, 1868; resigned, March 21, 1871. 
m. Oct. 1, 1873, Mary Cowan Huston, (dau. of Cephas 
Beal Huston and Nancy (Irwin) Huston, of Indian- 
apolis, Ind.) They are living at Bogata, N. J. 
Children : 

282 Louise 9 , b. June 28, 1874, in Decatur, 111. 

283 Ira Jr. 9 , b. Jan'y 8, 1879, in Rosedale, Kansas. 

165 Lucy H. 8 Garnsey, m. April 28, 1S47, Harvey F. Mont- 
gomery, of Rochester, N. Y., (b. July 21, 1818, d. Nov. 
8, 1884). 

Child: 

284 Harvey G. 9 , b. April 5, 1848, d. May 8, 1S48. 

166 Cyrus 8 Garnsey, m. Feb. 25, 1858, Eliza Goodwin 
Hoskins, (b. May 27, 1837, dau. of Charles Lansing 
Hoskins and Eliza Ely (Goodwin) Hoskins). They live 
at Seneca Falls, N. Y. , and their children are: 

285 Cyrus 9 , b. April 10, 1861. 

286 Lucy 9 , b. Oct. 14, 1S62. 

287 Mary Woolsey 9 , b. Sept. 30, 1868, d. JanY 22, 1874. 
28S Hamilton 9 , b. Dec. 24, 1870. 

167 Amanda Clara 8 Sayre, m. Aug. 25, 1852, Jacob Hyer, 
(b. Sept. 18, 1818, d. Jan'y 3, 1889), son of Jacob and 
Mary A. (Homan) Hyer, of Greenfield, Ohio. 



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Children, born in Greenfield, Ohio: 

289 Elizabeth 9 , b. Dec. 17, 1856. 

290 John Jacob 9 , b. Nov. 3, 1859. 

291 Stanley Matthews 9 , b. Jan'y 14, 1S61. 

292 Lincoln Harris 9 , b. Aug. 10, 1865. 

293 Clara Amanda 9 , b. Aug. 9, 1869, d. Sept. 1, 1872. 

294 Lucy Hamilton 9 , b. Feb. 9, 1872. 

170 Charles Harris 8 Phelps, of Boston, Mass., graduated at 
Harvard College, studied law and practiced in New York, 
m. Feb. 6, 1878, Eleanor Livingston Pell, (b. July 7, 
1857, dau. of John Augustus and Susan M. (Field) Pell, 
of New York City). They are now residing in Paris, 
France. 
Child : 

295 Harris Livingston 9 , b. May 15, 1885. 

174 Frederick 8 Harris, of Albany, N. Y., graduated at 
Union College, and was a lawyer in partnership with his 
father, Hamilton Harris. Hem. Sept 18, 1878, Caroline 
Gilbert Cox, dau. of James W. Cox, M. D. and Hannah 
(Gilbert) Cox, of Albany, N. Y. 

Children, born in Albany: 

296 Hannah Cox 9 , b. Nov. 1, 1879. 

297 Hamilton 9 , b. April 23, 1886. 

175 Lucy Hamilton 8 Harris, of Albany, N. Y., m. April 2, 
1889, Selwyn A. Russell, M. D., (b. Feb. 3. 185 1, son of 
G. Boyington Russell and Charlotte (Fisher) Russell, of 
Jay, N. Y.) 

Children : 

298 Selwyn Hamilton 9 , b. July 3, 1890, in Albany, N. Y. 

299 Hamilton Harris 9 , b. March 21, 1893, in Pough- 
keepsie, N. Y. 

176 Charles Douglas 8 Warner, of Brooklyn, N. Y., m. 
May 2, 1877, Amanda Shaw, (dau. of Orrin and Martha 
(Sweat) Shaw, of Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Children : 

300 Nellie Douglas 9 , b. Oct. 1, 1S79. 

301 Arthur Douglas 9 , b. July 16, 1881. 



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Nettie May 9 , b 1884. 



303 Gertrude 9 , b 1885, d. Feb. , 1889. 

304 Ethel 9 , b 1889. 



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177 Lucy Hamilton 8 Warner, of Brooklyn, N. Y., has 
written three charming books for children: "Five Little 
Fingers," "Fairy Elves" and "Four-leaved Clover." She 
m. June i, 1893, Major Henry Dunreath Tyler, (son of 
Daniel and Lavinia (Small) Tyler, of Limington, Maine.) 
They live in Brooklyn, N. Y. No children. 

178 Clara Harris 8 Warner, of Brooklyn, N. Y., m. April 28, 
1894, Frank Edmund Fisher, (son of Frank and Frances 
( ) Fisher, of Birmingham, England). They live 
in Brooklyn, and their children, born there, are: 

305 Edmund 9 Warner, b. May 12, 1895. 

306 William 9 Hamilton, b. March 1, 1898. 

179 William Hamilton Harris 8 Warner, of Brooklyn, 
N. Y., m. Nov. 2, 1891, Ella Lee, of Detroit, Mich. No 
children. 

181 Lucian Caleb 8 Carr, resides in Williamstown, N. Y., m. 
in Mexico, N. Y., May 9, 1883, Hattie M. Gillett, (b. Dec. 
7, i860, in Brasher, N. Y.) 

Child, born in Williamstown, N. Y. : 

307 Lucile 9 , b. Dec. 31, 1893. 

182 Clara Lucinda 8 Carr, m. in Sodus, N. Y., Feb. 16, 1881, 
Emor E. Burleigh, (b. June 24, 1847, in Newark, N. Y.) 
They reside in Newark, N. Y., and have one child: 

308 Francis 9 , b. Dec. 16, 1890. 

184 Caleb G. 8 Carr, resides in Williamstown, N. Y., m. Nov. 
17, 1878, Josephine E. House, (b. Sept. 14, 1858, in 
Albion, N. Y. 
Children, born in Williamstown, N. Y. : 

309 CoraL. 9 , b. March 7, 1881. 

310 Henry Lewis 9 , b. Jan'y 4, 1883. 

311 Clara M. 9 , b. Aug. 15, 1S89. 

187 Nelson H. 8 Carr, m in 1898, Viola Comstock. 

188 William Harvey 8 Ferris, of Jacksonville, 111., m. July 
14, 1S72, Nancy Virginia Hudson, (b. .Berlin, Worcester 
Co., Md., Oct. 23, 1852), dau. of Wm. S. and Julia 
(Powell) Hudson, of Windsor, 111. 

Children, born at Barry, 111. : 

312 Walter L. 9 , b. May 19, 1873. 

313 Hubert C 9 , b. Aug. 8, 1875. 

314 William H. 9 , b. Aug. 2, 1877. 

315 Charles L. 9 , b. Jan'y 28, 1882. 



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3 i6 George H.9, b. Sept. 21, 1886. 

317 John 0.9, b. Oct. 27, 1889. 

318 Julia M. 9, b. Sept. 6, 1891. 

189 Gilbert L. 8 Vaughn, m. Nov. 25, 1S75, Emma C. 

Raynor, (b. April 16, 1852, dau. of Charles R. and Lydia 
A. (DeLamater) Raynor .... and lives at Wood- 

land, Mo. 
Child : 

319 Clarence Earl9, b. Dec. 10, 1878. Is living at 
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 

190 Alma J. 8 Vaughn, m. March 27, 188S, George A. 
Kempf, (b. July 27, 1854, son of Henry and Elizabeth 

(Groose) Kempf, of ), and lives at Palmyra, 

Mo. No children. 

191 George W. 8 Vaughn, m. March 12, 1S90, Anna Bit- 
tleston, (b. July 29, 1869, dau. of William and Mary L. 
(Wilkerson) Bittleston, of Marion Co., Mo.) and is living 
at Woodland, Mo. No children. 

192 Clara F. 8 Vaughn, m. July 31, 1887, Theodore Erdman, 
(b. May 1, 1865, son of John M. and Wilhelmina 
(Drescher) Erdman, of Marion Co., Mo., and is living at 
Palmyra, Mo. No children. 

193 Helen Cornelia 9 Hiscock of Syracuse, N. Y., after grad- 
uating at Vassar College, was instructor of English there 
from 1875 to 1882, and has been a trustee of that college 
since 1887. She married, July 16, 1883, Truman Jay 
Backus, L.L.D., (b. Feb. 11, 1842, in Milan, Cayuga Co., 
N. Y.) son of Rev. Jay Spicer Backus and Mercy 
(Williams) Backus. Dr. and Mrs. Backus are living in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. , he being presideht of Packer Collegiate 
Institute. No children. 

194 Frank Harris 9 Hiscock is a prominent lawyer in 
Syracuse, N. Y. He was a Justice of the Supreme Court, 
and has been sitting, since 1901, in the Appellate Division 
of the Supreme Court. 

He married, Oct. 22, 1879, Mary E. Barnes (b. Dec. 13, 
1856) dau. of George and Rebecca (Heermans) Barnes of 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
Children, b. in Syracuse, N. Y. : 

320 Rebecca C. 19 , b. Oct. 1, 1880, d. July 11, 1896. 

321 Helen Lucy 19 , b. Sept. 17, 1882. 



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322 George Barnes 10 , b. March 9, 1889. 

323 Luther Harris 10 , b. July 19, 1893. 

195 Clara 9 Hiscock of Syracuse, N. Y., m. June 19, 
18S9, Walter Brace (b. April 19, 1863), son of Charles C. 
and Harriet (Taylor) Brace of Leavenworth, Kansas. 
They are now living in Denver, Colorado. 

Children: 

324 Porter Hiscock 10 , b. May 17, 1890, in Leavenworth, 
Kansas. 

325 Letitia Austin 10 , b. Nov. 4, 1894, in Leadville, Col. 

326 Harriet Taylor 10 , b. Dec. 2, 1898, in Ouray, Col. 

196 Albert King 9 Hiscock is President of the State Bank, 
of Syracuse, N. Y. He m. April 25, 1885, Gertrude 
Hatch Thorpe (b. at Wellsville, N. Y.) dau. of Simeon 
M. and Helen (Fassett) Thorpe of Wellsville, N. Y. 

Children: 

327 Helen Cornelia 10 , b. Dec. 18, 1889, in Syracuse, 
N. Y. 

328 Thorpe 10 , b Feb. 24, 1892, in Tacoma, Wash. 

200 Adelaide Jessie 9 Dunham of Ozark, Mo., m. Dec. 7, 
18S7, Charles N. Maybee, formerly of Montreal, Canada. 
He d. Oct. 29, 1896. 

Children, b. near Ozark, Christian Co. , Mo. : 

329 Alphretta B. 10 , b. Nov. 3, 1888. 

330 Beatrice L. 10 , b. Dec. 31, 1889, d. Sept. 14, 1890. 

331 Eugene N. 10 , b. March 30, 1891. 

332 Annie E. 10 , b. June 3, 1892. 

333 Winnie May 10 , b. May 27, 1893. 

334 Fred. Cannif 10 , Dec. 5, 1894, adopted by Judge C. 
A. Skidmore of Ozark, Mo. 

201 Vernon Leroy 9 Dunham of Ozark, Mo., m. June 4, 
1890, Mary A. Frazier of Billings, Mo. 

Children, b. near Ozark, Christian Co., Mo. : 

335 Elbert Edmund 10 , b. May 10, 1891. 

336 Annie B. 10 , b, July 8, 1892. 

337 Shirley Hershel 10 , b. March 24, 1S94. 

338 Leslie Ward 10 , b. Aug. 9, 1896. 

339 James Gordon 10 , b. Feb. 28, 1898. 

340 Clarence Vernon 10 , b. Aug. 13, 1899. 

341 Jane Louise 10 , b. April 13, 1901. 

342 Ross Howard 10 , b. July 8, 1902. 



202 Minard Stevens 9 Dunham of Ozark, Mo., m. May 
31, 1 89 1, Dora A. Lawson. 

Children, b. near Ozark, Christian Co., Mo. : 

343 Homer Hubert 10 , b. March 5, 1892. 

344 Rollo Rupert 10 , b. April 14, 1893. 

345 Frank Luther 10 , b. April 5, 1896. 

346 Maggie Edith 10 , b. Aug. 19, 1897. 

347 Allen Earl 10 , b. Jan'y 7, 1900. 

348 a son 10 , b. June 28, 1904. 

203 Nellie G. 9 Dunham of Ozark, Mo., m. Nov. 28, 1895, 
James M. Lawson. They moved, Dec. 28, 1901, to 
Maguire, Oklahoma, where they are now living. 

Children, b. near Ozark, Christian Co., Mo. : 

349 Sarah Louise 10 , b. Sept. 10, 1896. 

350 Leonard Kenneth 10 , b. Feb. n, 1898. 

351 James Hobart 10 , b. Sept. 9, 1900. 

205 Jane A. 9 Peck m. Oct. 2, 1873, Andrew Lake Chapman 
(born May 25, 1838, in Wellington, Ohio). They live 
at Lansing, Mich. 

Children: 

352 Arthur Peck 10 , b. Nov. 2, 1874. 

353 Clarence B. 10 , b. June 9, 1876, m. Oct. 2, 1901, 
Addie M. Moore (b. March 10, 1878, in Delta,Mich.) 
They are living in Lansing, Mich. 

354 Bert R. 10 , b. Feb. 2, 1880, m. April 3, 1903, 
Fannie Saunders of Grand Rapids, Mich. 

355 Olive 10 , b. May 15, 1886. 

206 Emma Louise 9 Peck m. at Lansing, Mich., July 
29, 1879, Harris B. Turner (b. in Attica, N. Y., April 7, 
1 841). They are now living in Lansing, Mich. 

Child : 

356 Edith Mabelle 10 , b. Sept 6, 1885. 

207 Flora Isadore 9 Peck m. at Lansing, Mich., Oct. 
2, 1882, Fred. N. Graves (b. in Watertown, N. Y., July 
17, 1854, d. July 1, 1S87). 

Children, b. in Utica, N. Y. : 

357 Harry True 10 , b. Sept. 10, 1884, is living at Niles, 
Mich. 

358 Fred. Peck 10 , b. Nov. 27, 1886, d. July 8, 1893, at 
Lansing, Mich. 



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209 Lena J. 9 Brown m. April 25, 1900, Ralph N. Eastwood 
and they live in Syracuse, N. Y. 
Children, b. in Syracuse, N. Y. : 

359 Riva Lucinda 10 , b. Nov. 19, 1900. 

360 Nettie Luella 10 , b. June 9, 1902. 

361 Irene 10 , b. Feb. 8, 1904. 

217 Roba Frances 9 Dix, m. July 8, 1897, George M. Lake, 
(b. July 8, 1875). 
Child: 

362 Maynard D. 10 , b. March 26, 1898. 

221 Ethel Agnes 9 Dix, m. at Fulton, N. Y., Feb. 8, 1903, 
William Sheridan Mosier, of Grand Rapids, Mich., (b. 
Oct. 25, 1875, in Iowa, son of Samuel and Helen Mosier). 

222 Merton E. 9 Lake, m. Dec. 28, 1894, Ollie A. Jennings, 
(b. July 7, 1868). 

Child: 

363 Pearl M. 10 , b. Sept. 20, 1899. 

233 James Elliot 9 Lee, lives in Syracuse, N. Y., m. Oct. 30, 
1890, Vernia Gilbert, (b. June 17, 1870, at Tully, N. Y.,) 
dau. of Oscar and Amanda M. (DeLamater) Gilbert, of 
Syracuse, N. Y. 

Child: 

364 Marion 10 , b. Jan'y 17, 1892. 

234 Harry Forest 9 Lee, lives in Amsterdam, N. Y. , m. July 
18, 1S98, Isabelle Rober, (b. Sept. 17, 1869, dau. of Paul 
and Adelia (Leroy) Rober of Baldwinsville, N. Y.) No 
children. 

236 William H. 9 Elliot, lives at East Greenbush, N. Y., m. 
Dec. 3, 1S84, Esther C. Strever, (b. Oct. 26, 1S61), dau. 
of Martin and Dorcas A. (Brockway) Strever, of Scho- 
dack, N. Y. 

Child: 

365 Earl M. 10 , b. Feb. 9, 1888. 

237 Charlotte A. 9 Elliot, lives at Rensselaer, N. Y., m. Feb. 
21, 1883, George R. Allendorph, (b. March 19, 1S53), son 
of Ransom and Catharine (Whitbeck) Allendorph, of 
Schodack, N. Y. 

Children: 

366 Harris J. 10 , b. Oct. 22, 1885. 

367 Evelyn 10 , b. April 10, 1887. 

368 Glenn Irving 10 , b. Oct. 7, 1894. 



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238 Cora B. 9 Elliot, m. June 4, 1S90, Irving Turner, son of 
George and Mary E. Turner, of Clifton Park, N. Y. 
Child: 

369 Jennie", b. March 5, 1892, d. Dec. 9, 1898, at 
Visscher's Ferry, N. Y. 

242 Jennie M. 9 Elliot, m. Dec 5, 1894, Philip S. Staats, of 
Schodack, N. Y., (b. Dec. 5, 1870), son of Philip and 
Laura (Sprague) Staats, of Schodack, N. Y. 

Child: 

370 Philip P. 10 , b. April 20, 1904 

243 Mabel 9 Elliot, m. June 2$, 1897, Harvey Bedell, of 
of Schodack, N. Y., (b. June 26, 1870), son of Joseph and 
Mary A. (Bedell) Bedell, of Schodack, N. Y. No children. 

246 David Elliot 9 Hicks, lives at East Greenbush, N. Y., m. 
June 18, 1895, Marcia Buick, (b. April 2, 1S74), dau. of 
Helmet and Anna (Possom) Buick, of East Greenbush, 
N. Y. 

Children : 

371 Eula B.10, b. April 2, 1896. 

372 Jesse" b. July 19, 1S97. 

247 William W. 9 Elliot, of East Greenbush, N. Y., m. June 
7, 1887, Cora Martarratt, (b. Oct. , 1S70, d. May 14, 
1889). No children. 

248 David Edward 9 Elliot, of East Greenbush, N. Y., m. 
1st, March 29, 1893, Nettie Birch, (d. June 7, 1894). 
No children, m. 2nd, June 13, 1900, Edith Irwin, (b. 
Oct. 29, 1876), dau. of Frank and Mary (Grounds) Irwin, 
of Rensselaer, N. Y. 

Child: 

373 Clarence P. 10 , b. Sept 25, 1903. 

249 Harris N. 9 Elliot, of East Greenbush, N. Y., m. Oct. 12, 
1899, Lizzie Worth Vandenburg, (b. June 1, 1873), dau. 
of Edward and Janetta (Worth) Vandenburg, of Scho- 
dack, N. Y. No children. 

251 Sherman C. 9 Elliot, of East Greenbush, N. Y., m. Etta 
Oliver, (b. June 14, 1880), dau. of Jacob and Alida 
(Sodinger) Oliver, of Guilderland, Albany Co., N. Y. 
Child: 

374 Orville S. 10 , b. Nov. 23, 1902. 



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255 Douglas J. 9 Elliot, of East Greenbush, N. Y., m. March 
6, 1S98, Anna Helen Eckes, (b. May 22, 1878), dau. of 
Henry and Helen (Swart) Eckes, of West Sand Lake, 
N. Y. 

Children, born at West Sand Lake, N. Y. : 

375 Maud Helen 10 , b. April 30, 1900. 

376 Catharine 10 , b. May 2, 1902. 

256 Hamilton Harris Elliot, of East Greenbush, N. Y., m. 
Jan'y 21, 1903, Iretta Keller Silliman, dau. of Capt. John 
D. and Esther A. (Keller) Silliman, of Rensselaer, N. Y. 

262 Burton B. W. 9 Elliot, of East Greenbush, N. Y., m. 
Jan'y 26, 1897, Sarah Huested, (b. Jan'y 8, 1880), dau. of 
Charles and Louisa (Erbin) Huested, of Nassau, N. Y. 
No children. 

265 George Earl Mandaville, of Jersey City, N. J., m. June 
27, 1894, at Jersey City, Minnie Provost, (b. April 28, 
1874, at Coxsackie, N. Y.) dau. of George and Winnie 
(Morehouse) Provost. 
Children: 

377 Edward Prentiss 10 , b. July 20, 1895, in Jersey 
City, N. J. 

378 Mildred Provost 10 , b. Feb. 23, 1897, in Newark, N. J. 

379 Beatrice Elliot 10 , b. April 15, 1898, in New York 
City. 

272 Henry Riggs 9 Rathbone, is practicing- law in Chicago, 
111. He m. Dec. 22, 1903, Laura Harney, dau. of Mrs. 
Amanda Harney, of Oshkosh, Wis. 

274 Clara Pauline 9 Rathbone, m. in New York City, June 
18, 1902, Buckner Magill Randolph, M. D., of Philadel- 
phia, Pa., b. Aug. 21, 1 87 1, in Virginia, son of Buckner 
Magill and Mary Semmes (Haxton) Randolph, of Rich- 
mond, Va. 

Child: 

380 Buckner Magill 10 , b. May 29, 1903. 

275 Ira Harris 9 Miller, of Columbus, Ohio, m., Oct. 10, 1894, 
Ezerine Dudley Dodge (d. Jan'y 12, 1897) dau. of Wilson 
and Ella Dodge of Cleveland, Ohio. No children. 

277 Theron Butler 9 Miller of Columbus, Ohio, m., Nov. 15, 

1898, Jessica Robinson English (b , 1872) 

dau. of John Clancy and Mary (Robinson) English of 
Columbus, Ohio. 



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Child: 

381 Thomas Ewing 10 , b. Dec. 1, 1900. 

280 Edith Louise 9 Harris, m. April 24, 1SS9, in Cleveland, 
Ohio, Albert E. Symington (b. Oct. 24, 1S62, in New 
York) son of James Symington of Dalkeith, Scotland, and 
Eliza (Kelly) Symington of Galway, Ireland (m. at Bor- 
deaux, France, in 1S53). Mr. and Mrs. Albert E. Sym- 
ington live in New York City. 

Children, b. in New York City: 

382 Wm. Hamilton Harris 10 , b. March 17, 1890. 

383 Edith Harris 10 , b. Nov. 12, 1891, d. May 7, 1S92. 

384 Hazen 10 , b. Aug. 20, 1S93. 

3S5 James Mansfield 10 , b. Dec. 2, 1894. 

281 Emma Witt 9 Harris, m. Nov. 27, 1900, in New York 
City, Lewis Atterbury Conner, M. D., (b. Jan'y 17, 1867, 
in New Albany, Ind.) son of Charles Horace Conner of 
New Albany, Ind., and Katharine Boudinot (Atterbury) 
Conner of Detroit, Mich. Dr. and Mrs. Conner live in 
New York City. 

Child: 

386 Katharine Atterbury 10 , b. Nov. 30, 1901. 

282 Louise 9 Harris m., April 14, 189S, Thomas Nelson 
Willins, son of John and Lizzie (Nelson) Willins of Mem- 
phis, Tenn., and they are living in Bogota, N. J. 

Child: 

387 Mary Harris 10 , b. April 9, 1899. 

285 Cyrus 9 Garnsey, Jr., m., Dec. 12, 1888, at Memphis, 
Tenn., Decloud Beauregard Dobyns (b. April 19, i860) 
dau. of Thomas J. and Martha C. (Sharpe) Dobyns of 
Memphis, Tenn. They are living in Memphis, Tenn. 
Children: 

388 Caroline 10 , b. Oct. 10, 1889, in Memphis, Tenn. 

389 Mary Wolsey 10 , b. May 31, 1893, in Memphis, Tenn. 

390 Cyrus 10 , b. Oct. 8, 1S96, in Memphis, Tenn. 

28S Hamilton 9 Garnsey, m. Dec. 4, 1S97, at Chicago, 111., 

Elizabeth DeLancy Guion (b. Oct. 14, 1867), dau. of 

George Murray Guion and Adelaide C. (Partridge) Guion 

of Chicago, 111. They are living in Seneca Falls, N Y. 

Children: 

391 Elizabeth Hamilton 10 , b. June 19, 1S99, in Seneca 
Falls, N. Y. 



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392 Hamilton 1 *), b. Sept. i, 1901, in Seneca Falls, N. Y. 
2S9 Elizabeth 9 Hyer, m. June 22, 1876, William Byron Neff 

(b. April 30, 1S5 1 ) son of Cornelius and Eliza (Rhinehart) 
Neff of Winchester, Ohio. 

Judge and Mrs. William B. Neff reside in Cleveland, 
Ohio, where he was District Attorney for some years and 
is now judge of Court of Common Pleas. 
Children, b. in Cleveland, Ohio: 

393 Horace Hyer 10 , b. June 24, 1878. 

394 Amy Clare 10 , b. May 26, 1SS1. 

290 John Jacob 9 Hyer m., Sept. 3, 1878, Emilie Schricker 
(b. Sept. 3. 1 861). dau. of Louis and Margaret (.-..) 
Schricker of Warrensburgh, Mo. They live in Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Children, b. in Warrensburg, Mo. : 

395 Clara Amanda 10 , b. July 15, 1879, m., April 20, 
1899, Leonidas Dyer of Washington, D. C, where 
they live. 

Children: 
Martha 11 , b. Feb. 20, 1900. 
Amy 11 , b. Sept. 26, 1901. 

396 John Clayton 10 , b. Feb. 9, 1882, m. April 7, 1904, 
Belle Meline of Washington, D. C, dau. of Major 
James Florent Meline, b. in France, and Belle 
(Mouiliner) Meline, b. in New Orleans. 

291 Stanley Matthews 9 Hyer m. May 20, 1889, Jane, 
Morrow (b. Sept. 3, 1864), dau. of C. C. and Mary Morrow 
of Warrensburg, Mo. They live in Kansas City, Mo. 

Children : 

397 Mary Amanda 10 , b. Feb. 23, 1S90, in Kansas City, 
Mo. 

398 Frances Elizabeth 10 , b. April 21, 1896, in Kansas 
City, Mo. 

292 Lincoln Harris 9 Hyer m. March 18, 1886, Ellen Snow 
(b. July, 15, 1867) dau. of Charles and Jane (Grinsted) 
Snow of Warrensburg, Mo. They are living in Warrens- 
burg, Mo. 

Children : 

399 Charles Snow Jacob 10 , b. Aug. 1, 1888. 

400 Ellen Stone 10 , b. April 27, 1889. 

401 Randall 10 , b. Nov. 9, 1896. 



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402 Ralph Lincoln 1 *)! 

403 Ruth Lucileio } b - Au S- 2I > 1901, d. July 26, 1902. 

294 Lucy Hamilton'* Hyer m. Feb. 20, 1894, Henry William 
Aring (b. May 6, 1869, in Hanover, Germany) son of 

Henry and Louise ( ) Aring, d. Dec. 10, 1903. 

Mrs Aring lives in Cleveland, Ohio. 
296 Hannah Cox 9 Harris m., June 18, 1903, at Albany, 

N. Y., Ensign Alfred W. Johnson, U. S. N., (b 

. . . ) son of Rear Admiral Philip C. Johnson 
Child : 

404 Caroline Gilbert 10 , b. March 22, 1904. 

300 Nellie Douglas 9 Warner m. Aug. — , 1900, Albert 
Bechtold and they are living in Bayonne, N. J. 
Child: 

405 Albert 19 , b 

313 Hubert C. 9 Ferris, m. Oct. 7, 1896, in Jacksonville, 111., 
Anna Belle Markoe, (b. Dec. 9, 1872, in Jacksonville, 111.) 
dau. of Samuel and Elizabeth (Hall) Markoe, and live 
now in Portland, Oregon. 

Children : 

406 Allen Harvey 10 , b. July 26, 1897, in Jacksonville. 111. 

407 Virginia Markoe 10 , b. Jan'y 18, 1903, in Paris, 
Texas. 

314 William H. 9 Ferris, Jr., of Jacksonville, 111., m. Dec. 
31, 1902, Henrietta Ricks, dau. of Henry and Frances A. 
(Meyers) Ricks of Jacksonville, 111. 



INDEX TO GENEALOGY. 



HARRIS— Family. 

PAGE 

Abigail, 6 

Abner 4 

Ada M 4 

Agnes io, 14 

Alice, 6 

Almyra 8, 9, 12, 14, 20 

Almyra J 11, 16 

Althea E 15, 24 

Alvin C 25 

Amanda 12, 14, 19 

Amanda J 18, 27 

Amaziah 4 

Amity 3. 5. 6 

Amey W 5 

Anna 5 

Asahel 4 

Augustus, M. D 8, 9, 10 

Benjamin, 4 

Benjamin C 4 

Bethuel, 5 

Carlton E 25 

Charles 4 

Christopher 5 

Clara H 18, 27 

Clara T 12 

Cynthia, 8, 9, 10, 14 

Cynthia M. N n, 15 

Cyrus 8, 9, 10 

Cyrus H 10 

Daniel A 4 

David 4, 5 

Dinah 5 

Dinah, (Burton) 12 

Dorcas 6 

Edith L 28, 37 

Edwin A 24 

Edwin J 15, 24 

Elisha S 4 

Eliza F 15, 24 

Elizabeth, 8, 9, 10, 12, 19 

Elizabeth H 11, 15 



PAGE 

Ella J 15, 24 

Elnathan, 3, 5, 6 

Elnetta S 25 

Emma W 28, 37 

Emmagene 15, 24 

Erastus, 5 

Eunice W 14 

Frederick, 20, 29 

Frederick B iS, 20 

Frederick W 8, 9, 11 

Gideon, 4 

George 12 

Hamilton, 12, 20, 29 

Hannah C 29, 39 

Harris E 15. 24 

Henry 3, 4, 6, 9 

Henry T S, 9 

Hiram R 10 



Ira, . 
Ira, Jr. 



12, 17, 18, 28 
2S 



Jabez 4 

James, 7. 12 

James N 12 

Jane W 10, 14 

Jedediah, 5-7 

Job 3. 6 

John 3. 4 

John B 24 

John H 10, 15, 24 

Jonathan, 4 

Joseph 5- 7 

Lorenzo S, 9, 10 

Loretta 1° 

Louis H 24 

Louise 28, 37 

Louise H 18 

Lucinda 8, 9, 10, 12, 19 

Lucy, 10, 12 

Lucy H 20, 29 

Lucy M 10 

Lydia 4> 6 



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PAGE 

Maria, 10 

Martha 3 

Martha C n, 16 

Mary 3, 5. 6 

Mercy, 12, 19 

Muriel F 25 

Naomi S 10 

Nicholas, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 

Nicholas B 8, 9, 10, 11 

Nicholas P 10 

Nicholas W 10, 14 

Patience, 4, 7 

Pauline, 19 

Phebe, . . 3, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 19 

Phebe, (Tibbits) 8, 9 

Phebe, Waterman Tibbits ...n 
Preserved, 5 

Ray E 25 

Rhobe, 8, 9, 13, 14 

Richard, 3, 4, 5 

Robert, 4 

Roderick 9 

Samuel B 5 

Sarah, 6, 7 

Stephen 4 

Thomas 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 

Toleration, 5 

Uriah 4 

Waite, 3 

Walter D 4 

William 3, 4, 5, 6 

William H 18, 28 

William T 4 

Zeruiah ,5 



HARRIS FAMILY — De- 
scendants having other 
names. 

PAGE 

Allendorph, Catherine (Whit- 
beck) 34 

Evelyn 34 

George R 34 

Glenn 1 34 

Harris J 34 

Ransom 34 

Aring, Henry 39 

Henry W 39 

Louise ( ) 39 

Austin, Amanda (McCullough), 22 

Edward G 22 

Letitia 22 

Backus, Rev. J. S 31 

Mercy (Williams) . . . 3I 

Truman J 31 

Baker, Elsie A 21 

Frances C 2l 

Barnes, George 31 

Mary E 31 

Rebecca (Heermans). . 31 

Barnum, 13 

Baum, Josephine 23 

Bechtold, Albert 39 

Bedell, Harvey 35 

Joseph 35 

Mary A. (Bedell) . . . .35 

Bernon, Eve 7 

Gabriel . , 6 

Mary 6 

Susanna 6 

Betts, Josiah 24 

Birch, Nettie 35 

Bittleston, Anna 31 

Mary L. (Wilkerson) 31 

William 31 

Blake, Hannah 5 

Brace, Charles C 32 

Harriet (Taylor) .... 32 

Harriet T 32 

Letitia A 32 

Porter H 32 

Walter 32 



4 2 



PAGE 

Bridgman, Isaac 22 

Lucy 22 

Lucy (Chandler) . . 22 

Briggs, JaneM 21 

Brown, Agnes J 14 

Chad 7 

Claude H 24 

De Ette 24 

Edwin A 24 

Elnathan 6 

Gladys M 24 

Rev. Hamilton 14 

Harold A 24 

Harry A 23 

Henry 3 

Henry H 15-23 

Homer G 24 

James 13 

John 24 

Lelia J 24 

Lena J 23, 34 

Lewis H 24 

Lorenzo H 14, 23 

Lorie Harris 23 

Martha 4 

Mary 4 

Nathaniel 6 

Othniel 7 

Patience 5, 7 

Phebe 3, 4 

Sarah 6 

Sarah (Jenckes) .... 6 
Waite (Waterman) ... 3 
William 6 

Bryant, Agnes J 14, 23 

Samuel S 14 

Buick, Anna (Possum) 35 

Helmet 35 

Marcia 35 

Burleigh, Emor E 30 

Francis 30 

Burlingame, Elisha 7 

Phebe 7 

Burton, Dinah 7 

John 7 

Carmichael, Esther (Canfield) . n 

John 11 

Martha 10 



PAGE 

Carpenter, Irsael 6 

Carr, Abigal(Very) 12 

Caleb 12 

Caleb G 21, 30 

Caleb L 13, 21 

Charlotte L 13 

Clara L 21, 30 

Clara M 30 

Clarence H 21 

Cora L 30 

Cynthia L 13, 21 

Henry L 30 

Henry T 13, 21 

Lottie 21 

Lucien C 21, 30 

Lucile 30 

Lucinda 13 

Nelson H 21, 30 

Sarah L 21 

Carter, Edward 25 

Elizabeth N. (Sherman), 25 

Mary E. . . 25 

Chapman, Addie M 33 

Andrew L 33 

Arthur P 33 

Bert R 33 

Clarence B 33 

Olive 33 

Collins, Sarah 5 

Comstock, Viola 30 

Conner, Catherine A 37 

Catherine B. (Atter- 

bury) 37 

Charles H 37 

Lewis A 37 

Cowell, Benjamin 5 

Joseph H 5 

Cox, Caroline G 29 

Hannah (Gilbert) 29 

James W., M.D 29 

Crannell, Fanny (Jackson) ... 26 

Maria 26 

Wyant 26 

Craver, Catherine E 26 

John A 26 

Mary A. (Gage) ... 26 

Crawford, Gideon 6 

Joseph 6 



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PAGE 

Dings, Laura C. (Smith) .... 4 

Dix, Cora E 24 

Edith S 24, 34 

Ethel A 24, 34 

James D 24 

May Belle 24 

Roba Frances 24, 34 

Dobyns, Decloud B 37 

Martha C. (Sharpe) . . 37 

Thomas J 37 

Dodge, Ella 36 

Ezerine D 36 

Wilson ....••.. 36 

Douglas, Almyra H 27 

Edward 27 

Edward W. . . . 16, 27 

Henry T 16, 27 

Maria (Dibble) ... 16 
Martha Carolina, 16, 26 

William B 16 

William H 16 

Dunham. Adelaide J. . . . 23, 32 

Allen E 33 

Annie B 32 

Augusta L 22 

Clarence V 32 

Elbert E 32 

Frank L 33 

Harris W 22 

Homer H 33 

James G 32 

Jane L 32 

Leslie W 32 

Maggie E 33 

Minard S 23, 33 

Nellie G 23, 33 

Rollo R 33 

Ross H 32 

Shirley H 32 

Thomas W. . . . . 22 
Vernon L. . . . 23, 32 

Dyer, Amy 3 3 

Martha 3 S 

Leonidas 38 

Eastwood, Irene 34 

Nettie L 34 

Ralph N 34 

Riva L 34 



PAGE 

Eckes, Anna H 36 

Helen (Swart) 36 

Henry 36 

Elliott, Adella C 26 

Anna 1 2 6 

Burton B. W. . . . 26, 36 

Catherine 36 

Charles A 16, 26 

Charles 1 25 

Charles W 2 6 

Charlotte A 25, 34 

Clarence 2 6 

Clarence P 35 

Cora B 25, 35 

David I5 

David E 26, 35 

David M 15, 25 

Douglas J 26, 36 

Earl M 34 

Edward 25 

Eliza M 25 

Frank D r 6 

Frederick W 26 

Hamilton H. . . . 26, 36 

Harris N 26, 35 

Harriet A 16, 26 

Helen A 15 

Ida May 26 

James B 15, 26 

James H 15, 25 

James W I5 

Jennie M 25, 35 

John A 26 

Julia E ^ 

Julius H 16 

Lilian M. . 26 

Lulu 26 

Ma bel 25, 35 

Maria T 25 

Mary C 26 

Mary E 15, 25 

Mary M 15, 25 

Maud H 36 

Nicholas B. H. . . 15, 25 

Orville S 35 

Polly (Morehouse) . . 15 

Sherman C 26, 35 

William 15 

William A 15 



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PAGE 

Elliott, William H 25, 34 

William W. . . 15, 26, 35 

English, Jessica R 36 

John C 36 

Mary (Robinson) ... 36 

Erdman, John M 31 

Theodore 31 

Wilhelmina (Drescher) 31 

Fenner, Joseph 3 

Ferris, Allen H 39 

Charles L 30 

George H 31 

Hubert C 30, 39 

John 31 

Julia M 31 

Martha A 13 

Morris 13 

Nicholas L 13, 21 

Rhobe H 8 

Virginia M 39 

Walter L 30 

William H. . . . 21, 30, 39 

Field, Martha 5 

Thomas 3 

Fisher, Edmund W 30 

Frances ( ) ... 30 

Frank 30 

Frank E 30 

William H 30 

Foster, Martha 4 

Fowler, Alvin 16 

Amos, M. D 16 

Caroline 1 17, 27 

Frank H 17 

Mark 16 

Martha H 17 

Olive (Lord) 16 

Warren H., M. D. . . .16 

William 16 

Fralick, Delia E 23 

Frazier, Mary A 32 

Garnsey, Caroline 37 

Cyrus 19, 28 

Cyrus, Jr 28, 37 

Elizabeth H 37 

Hamilton ... 28, 37, 38 
Lucy 2S 



PAGE 

Garnsey, Lucy H 19, 2S 

Lydia (Barnes) . , . 19 

Mary W 28, 37 

Nathan 19 

Gilbert, Aaron B 21 

Amanda M. 

(DeLamater) . . 34 

Cyrus 37 

Ebenezer 21 

Laura Hinman .... 21 

Mary W 37 

Oscar 34 

Vernia 34 

Gile, Almyra H 27 

Caroline Fowler D. ... 27 

Eliza A. (Dean) 26 

Harriet E 27 

Lorenzo, M. D 26 

William A 26 

Gillett, Hattie M 30 

Gonsaulis, 14 

Goodwin, Gertrude E 23 

Gorton, Susanna 4 

Graves, Fred N 33 

Fred P 33 

Harry T 33 

Guile, Joseph 5 

Guion, Adelaide C. (Partridge) 37 

Elizabeth D. L 37 

George M 37 

Ham, Rebecca J. (Parkyn,^ . . 27 

Robert C 27 

Thomas H 27 

Hamilton, John 11 

Lucy n 

Mercy (Cornish) . . 11 

Harney, Amanda 36 

Laura 36 

Hicks, Bertha 25 

David Elliott .... 25, 35 

Eula B 35 

Hannah R 25 

Jesse 25, 35 

Jesse 35 

Stephen 25 

William 25 

Hiscock, Albert K 22, 32 

Charles 14, 22 



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PAGE 

Hiscock, Clara 22, 32 

FidellioK 22 

Frank H. . . . 14, 22, 31 

George B 32 

Helen C. . . . 22, 31, 32 

Helen L 31 

Horace 14. 22 

Luther H. . . . 14, 22, 32 

Rebecca C 31 

Richard 14 

Sarah (Cody) .... 14 

Thorpe 32 

Heusted, Charles 36 

Louisa (Erbin) ... 36 

Sarah 36 

Holbrook, Adolphus 22 

Caty (Jordan) ... 22 

Kate E 22 

Hopkins, Anne 5 

Hope ........ 6 

Mary 5 

Mary (Smith) .... 5 

Thomas 5 

Hoskins, Charles L 2S 

Eliza E. (Goodwin) . . 2S 

Eliza G 28 

House, Josephine E 30 

Hudson, Julia (Powell) ... 30 

Nancy V 30 

William S 30 

Huston, Cephas B 2S 

Mary C 2S 

Nancy (Irwin) .... 28 

Hutchins, David 24 

Electa 24 

Genevra E 24 

Louis H 24 

Hutchinson, Albert 5 

Isabel 5 

Hyer, Charles S. J 38 

Clara A 29, 38 

Elizabeth 29, 38 

Ellen S 38 

Frances E 38 

Jacob 28 

John C 38 

John J 29, 38 

Lincoln H 29, 38 

Lucy H 29, 39 



PAGE 

Hyer, Mary A 38 

Mary A. (Homan) . . . 2S 

Ralph L 39 

Randall 3S 

Ruth L 39 

Stanley M 29, 3S 

Irwin, Edith 35 

Frank 35 

Mary (Grounds) .... 35 

Jennings, Ollie A 34 

Johnson, Alfred W 39 

Caroline G 39 

Philip C 39 

Jones, Jane 25 

Sarah ( ) 13 

Sophia 15 

William 15 

Judson, Roswell 19 

Kempf, Elizabeth (Groose) . . 31 

George A 31 

Henry 3 1 

Kendall, Ephriam 12 

Kilton, Samuel 5 

King, Albert 22 

Clement 4 

Cornelia 22 

Elizabeth 4 

Lucy (Winslow) 22 

Lake, Abram .24 

George M 34 

Lela B 24 

Maynard D 34 

Merten E 24, 34 

Pearl M 34 

Lawson, Dora A 33 

James H 33 

James M 33 

Leonard K 33 

Sarah L 33 

Lee, Ella 3° 

George -5 

Harry F 25, 34 

James E 25, 34 

Marion 34 

Sabrina (Kocker) .... 25 
William H 25 



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PAGE 

Lewis, Ella M 24 

Lord, Dorothy 16 

McNeely, Rev. William V. . . 23 

Mandaville, Beatrice E 36 

Earl 26 

Edward P 36 

George E. . . . 26, 36 

James 26 

Jane (Patterson) . 26 

Mildred P 36 

Markoe, Anna B 39 

Elizabeth (Hall) ... 39 

Samuel 39 

Martarratt, Cora 35 

Maybee, Alphretta B 32 

Annie E 32 

Beatrice L 32 

Charles N 32 

Eugene N 32 

Fred C 32 

Winnie M 32 

Meline, Belle 38 

Belle (Mouiliner) ... 38 

James F 38 

Miller, Eleanor 27 

Ira H 27, 36 

Louis G 27 

Theron B 27, 36 

Thomas E 27, 37 

Thomas E., Jr 27 

Montgomery, Harvey F. . . . 28 
Harvey G. ... 28 

Moore, Addie M 33 

Morrow, C. C 3 s 

Jane 3 s 

Mary 38 

Mosier, Helen 34 

Samuel 34 

William S 34 

Mowry, Anne 4 

Martha 5 

Neff, Amy C 38 

Cornelius 38 

Eliza (Rhinehart) .... 38 

Horace H 38 

William B 38 



PAGE 

Oliver, Alida (Sodinger) ... 35 

Etta 35 

Jacob 35 

Olney, Epenetus 6 

Lydia 6 

Mary (Whipple) .... 6 

Osborn, Harriet M 27 

Lucian M 27 

Phebe (Brown) . . . . 27 

Ostrom, Thomas 9 

Peck, Elihu 23 

Emma L 23, 33 

Flora 1 23, 33 

Jane A 23, 33 

Pell, Elinor L 29 

John A 29 

Susan M. (Field) 29 

Phelps, Abner 19 

Charles A 19 

Charles H 19, 29 

Delia Clark 19 

Delia Hubbell (Clark), 19 

Florence L 19 

Harris L 29 

Louise P 19 

Phillips, Sarah 4 

Pinney, Joel 18 

Pauline iS 

Violet (Bliss) iS 

Piper, John 21 

Mary 21 

Pope, Arena 12 

Provost, George 36 

Minnie 36 

Winnie (Morehouse), 36 

Randolph, Buckner M., M. D. . 36 
Mary S. (Haxton) . . 36 

Rathbone, Clara P 27. 36 

Gerald L. ... 27, 36 

Henry R 27, 36 

J. L 18,27 

Pauline (Pinney), 18, 37 

Raynor, Charles R 31 

Emma C 31 

Lydia A.(DeLamater), 31 

Remington, Daniel H 4 

Reynolds, Fannie 24 



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PAGE 

Ricks, Frances A. (Meyers) . . 39 

Henrietta 39 

Henry 39 

Rober, Adelia (Leroy) 34 

Isabelle 34 

Paul 34 

Rogers, Lucy M 20 

Nathaniel 20 

Phebe A. (Walker) . . 20 

Roice, Hiram 10 

Russell, Charlotte (Fischer) . . 29 

G. B 29 

Hamilron H 29 

Selwyn A., M. D. . . 29 

Selwyn H 29 

Rutenburg, Mary 5 

Ryesdorf, Leonard L 25 

Margaret 25 

Sarah M. (Butts). . . 25 

Saunders, Fannie 33 

Sayre, Amanda C 19. 28 

Rev. David 19 

Rev. John 19 

(Roberts) .... 19 

Schricker, Emilie 3S 

Louis 38 

Margaret ( ) . . 38 

Shaw, Amanda 29 

Martha (Sweat) .... 29 

Orrin 29 

Shepard, Eliza (Rea) 19 

John R 19 

Osgood H 19 

Stephen 19 

Stephen W I9 

Sherwood, Wealthy J 23 

Silliman, Esther A. (Keller) . . 36 

Iretta K 36 

John D 36 

Skidmore, C. A 32 

Smith, Abigail 4 

Christopher 6 

Daniel 6 

Jacob 5 

Snow, Charles 38 

Ellen 38 

Jane (Grinsted) 3S 

Spring, Lucy 10 



PAGE 

Staats, Laura (Sprague) . . . . 35 

Philip 35 

Philip P 35 

Philip S 35 

Stevens, Augusta 14 

Augustus 14 

Gerrilda 14 

Jonas 14 

Maria L 14, 22 

Morgan L 14 

Strever, Dorcas A. (Brockway), 34 

Esther C 34 

Martin 34 

Swain, Martha 5 

Sweet, Miss 5 

Symington, Albert E 37 

Edith H 37 

Eliza (Kelly) ... 37 

Hazen 37 

James 37 

James M 37 

William H. H. . . 37 

Tew, Elnathan 3 

Mary (Clarke) 3 

Richard 3 

Thorpe, Gertrude H 32 

Helen (Fassett) . . . .32 

Simeon M 32 

Tibbits, Henry 7 

Phebe 7 

Phebe (Waterman) . . 7 

Tillinghast, William 6 

Tracy, Lavina 9 

Tubbs, Clarissa 18 

Louisa iS 

Turner, Edith M 33 

George 35 

Harris B 33 

Irving 35 

Jennie 35 

Mary E 35 

Tyler, Daniel 30 

Henry D 30 

Lavina (Small) 30 

Vandenburgh, Edward .... 35 
Janetta (Worth), 35 
Lizzie W. ... 35 



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PAGE 

Van Vliet, Charity 14 

Vaughn, Alma J 21, 31 

Clara F 21, 31 

Clarence E 31 

David 13 

George W 21,31 

Gilbert L. ... 9, 21, 31 

Lora P 13 

Lorenzo H 13, 21 

Nicha B 13 

Warner, Althea E. (Northrope), 20 

Arthur D 29 

Charles D 21, 29 

Clara H 21, 30 

Ebenezer C 20 

Ethel 29 

Gertrude 29 

James D 20 

Lucy H 21, 30 

Mary E 21 

Nellie D 29, 39 

Nettie M 29 

William H. H. . . 21, 30 



PAGE 

Waterman, Zuriel 5 

Wescott, Dameris 4 

Tabitha 4 

Whipple, John 3 

Samuel 3 

Sarah 3 

White, Augusta , 23 

Gerilda V 23 

Mary 7 

Truman 14 

Willins, John 37 

Lizzie (Nelson) .... 37 

Mary H 37 

Thomas N 37 

Winne, Janetye 10 

Janetye (Van Wie) . . 10 

John D 10 

Witt, Eliza (Douglas) 28 

Emma H 2S 

Stillman 28 

Woods, Louise G. V 23 

Thomas 23 



SKETCHES. 



HARRIS. 

Coat of Arms : — Ar. a fess between three Moors' heads 
couped at the shoulders, sa. charged with as many martlets 
of the field. 

Thomas Harris came to New England with his brother, 
William, and Roger Williams, in ship Lion (or Lyon), from 
Bristol, Eng., Dec. i, 1630, and landed at Salem, Mass. 
Anne Harris, of Providence, R. I. and Parnill, wife of Thomas 
Roberts, of Newport, R. I., were their sisters. In July, 1676, 
William and Thomas Harris asked administration of Town 
Council of Newport, on estate of Parnill*, widow of Thomas 
Roberts, they being the only brothers of deceased. 

According to a written record of Nicholas Harris 5 , M. D., 
(who was born in 1749 and whose father Jedediah 4 was living 
while his grandfather, the 2nd Thomas Harris was, and hence, 
must have heard something of origin of family), his first 
ancestors in this country, Thomas, and brother William, 
"came from the town of Deal, in the Island of England." 
William and Thomas Harris went with Roger Williams from 
Salem, Mass., to Providence, R. I. (see note), and about Aug. 

*Prov. Rec. vi., 85. 

Note. — There is published a volume, "Collections of the Rhode Island 
Historical Society," 1902, devoted entirely to copies of the original letters 
of the bitter controversy between Roger Williams and William Harris, in 
which neither had spared invective, Williams calling Harris 'that prodigy 
of pride,' who, being an impudent morris dancer in Kent, under the cloak 
of jests against the bishop, goes into flight to New England, etc." The 
volume also contains copies of William Harris' letters, written in captivity 
— for in returning to England the third time on business, the ship in which 
he sailed, Unity, was taken, Jan'y 24, 1680, by an Algerine Corsair, and he 
was sold in Barbary and after more than a year's slavery, was ransomed 
at a high price. 



5° 

20, 1637, they signed the following compact: "We, whose 
names are hereunder, desirous to inhabit the town of Provi- 
dence, do promise to subject ourselves in active or passive obe- 
dience to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for 
public good of the body in an orderly way, by the major assent 
of the present inhabitants, members of families incorporated 
together, into a town of fellowship, and such others whom they 
shall admit unto themselves only in civil things." July 27, 
1640, Thomas Harris and thirty-eight others, signed an agree- 
ment for a form of government. On Sept. 2, 1650, he was 
taxed -£i. From 1652 to 1663, he was Commissioner; in 1654, 
Lieutenant; in 1655, Freeman. Bishop's "New England 
Judged," published in London in 1703, says, "that in July, 
1658. — After these, came Thomas Harris, from Rhode Island, 
into your Colony, who, Declaring against your pride and 
oppression, as he could have liberty to speak in your meeting 
place at Boston, after the Priest had ended, zuarning the people 
of the dreadful, terrible day of the Lord God, which was com- 
ing upon that Town and Country, him much unlike to Nineveth, 
you pulled down and hall*d him by the hair of his head, out of 
your meeting, and a hand was put on his mouth to keep him 
from speaking forth, and then had before your Governor and 
Deputy, with other Magistrates, and committed to prison with- 
out warrant or mittimus that he saw, and shut up in a close 
room, none suffered to come at him, nor to have provisions for 
his money; and the next day whipped with so cruel stripes, 
without showing any law that he had broken, tho' he desired 
it of the jailor, and then shut up again for eleven days more, 
five of which, he was kept without bread (your jailor not suf- 
fering him to have any for his money, and threatened one of 
the other prisoners very much for bringing him a little water 
on the day of his sore whipping), and all this because he 
would not work for the jailor and let him have eight pence 
in twelve pence of what he should earn," etc., etc. 

From 1664 to 1673, Thomas Harris was Deputy to the 
General Court. 1664 to 1669, member of Town Council. Feb. 
19, 1665, he drew lot 7 in division of lands. It fronted on what 
is now South Main street, Providence, about 122 feet wide and 
containing nearly five and one-half acres, running back to what 
is now Hope street. From 1666 to 1675, he was Assistant, and 
in May, 1667, as surveyor, he laid out the lands, etc. Aug. 



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i4, 1676, he was on a committee that recommended certain 
conditions, under which Indian captives should be disposed of 
by the town. They were to be in servitude for a term of years. 
April 27, 1683, he made the statement, that about 1661, being 
then a surveyor, he laid out " a three score acre lot for my son 
Thomas, at Paugachauge Hill, and a 25 acre lot on the south 
side," etc. 

His will was dated June 3, 1686, and proved July 22. 
Executor, son Thomas ; overseers, sons-in-law, Thomas Field 
and Samuel Whipple. 

Sept. 1, 1687, his widow, Elizabeth Harris was taxed 1 s. 
Thomas Harris 2 , (son of Thomas 1 and Elizabeth Harris), m. 
Elnathan Tew, and lived in Providence. Feb. 19, 1665, he 
had lot 49, in a division of lands. 167 1, '79, '80, '81, '82, '85, 
'91, '94, '97, 1702, '6, '7, '8, 'io, he was Deputy to the General 
Court. 1684, '85, '86, member of Town Council. His will was 
dated June 21, 1708 and proved April 16, 17 n. Executors, 
his wife Elnathan Tew and son Henry. 

On some of the grave stones in the old North Burying 
Ground, in Providence, R. I., are supposed to be the Harris 
Coat of Arms — three martlets on a shield. William Harris, 
who caused this coat of arms to be put on his daughter's grave 
stone in 1723, was son of Thomas 2 , and b. about 1672, was fif- 
teen years old when Thomas 1 died, and must have had the tra- 
ditions and acquaintance of the first generation. This coat of 
arms he had on three other stones erected to his children and it 
was later put on his own stone, and this was probably adapted 
from the arms given at the head of this sketch, used by the 
Harris families of Cheshire and Devonshire. 

Thomas 1 Harris m. Elizabeth 

Thomas 2 Harris m. Elnathan Tew. 
Nicholas 3 Harris m. Anne Hopkins. 
Jedediah 4 Harris m. Patience Brown. 
Nicholas 5 Harris m. Phebe Tibbits. 
Nicholas Brown 6 Harris m. Martha Carmichael. 



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TEW. 

Arms : Arg. three palets gu. on a chief or four mullets of 
the second. Crest — An arm in armor, the hand grasping a 
battle axe, all ppr. 

Henry Tew, father of Richard Tew, of Newport, R. I , 
lived at Maidford, Northampton Co., England, and it was there 
Richard Tew married Mary Clarke, as the following instru- 
ment, recorded in Rhode Island, in Book I, Land Evidences, 
Sec'y of State Office, shows "this indenture, made the 18th 
day of Oct. in the 9th year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord, 
Charles of England and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, 
etc. Between Henry Tew, of Maidford, County of Northamp- 
ton, Eng. , Yeoman, and William Clarke, of Prior Hardwick, Co. 
of Warwick, Eng., Yoeman witnesseth : That for and in con- 
sideration of a marriage by the grace of God, shortly to be had 
and solemnized between Richard Tew, son and heir apparent 
of said Henry and Mary Clarke, one of the daughters of said 
William Clarke, etc., etc." Then follows an engagement 
entered into by Henry Tew, to make over on his part, to his 
son Richard, houses, barns, tenements, etc. 

In 1640, Richard Tew and his wife Mary Clarke, came to 
New England, his daughter, Seaborn, receiving her name 
because born on the voyage over. In subsequent years he 
became a Quaker, and had recorded upon the Friends' Records 
his children's births. 1642 he lived in Newport. In 1654,' 56, 
'57> '58, '6°, '63, he was Commissioner. In 1655, Freeman. 
In 1657, '62, '63, '66, '67, he was Assistant. In 1661, he was 
on a committee to receive contributions for the agents in 
England, (Roger Williams and John Clarke). In 1663, he is 
named in the Royal Charter, granted Rhode Island by Charles 
II. In 1663, '64, '65, he was Deputy to the General Court. 
In 1667, he was on a committee appointed in the matter of 
Prison and Pound. In 1 671, he was member of a special 
court to try two Indians. 

A tradition of the family relates that he died in London, 
in 1673, where he had gone to look after some property. 
His widow, Mary Clarke, died about 1687. His will was 
proved March 27, 1674. Executors : Son, Henry Tew, of 
Newport, and brother, John Tew. He calls himself of New- 
port in Rhode Island in New England, Yeoman, and now of St. 



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Leonards, Shoreditch, Middlesex, Eng. "Being desirous to 
settle my affairs and concerns which I have in Old England, 
my native country, according as I have already done in New 
England, etc. To brother John Tew, of Towcester, Co. of 
Northampton, doctor of physick, 20s. to buy him a ring to 
wear for my sake. Rest of goods in Old England to my son 
Henry, of Newport, in Rhode Island, etc. 

Children of Richard and Mary (Clarke) Tew were: 

Seaborn, b. June 4, 1640. 

Elnathan, b. Oct. 15, 1644, d. Jan'y 11, 17 18. 

Mary, b. Aug. 12, 1647, d. . . . 1688. 

Henry, b 1654, was Deputy Governor of Rhode 

Island in 17 14, and d. April 26, 1718. 

The Tew coat of arms is in the North Burying Ground, 
Prov., R. I., on a stone to Lydia, wife of Paul Tew, grand- 
son of Richard. She died Aug. 30, 1751. 

Henry Tew 1 m. Ellen. 

Richard Tew 2 m. Mary Clarke, 1639. 

Elnathan Tew 3 m. Thomas Harris, Nov. 3, 1664 

Nicholas Harris 4 m. Anne Hopkins. 

Jedediah Harris 5 m. Patience Brown. 

Nicholas Harris, M. D <>, m. Phebe Tibbits, Feb. 25, 1773. 

Nicholas Brown Harris, M. D. 7 , m. Martha Carmichael 
Sept. 7, 1806. 

HOPKINS. 

William Hopkins, who emigrated to New England in 
1635, married in England, Joanna Arnold, (baptised Nov. 30, 
1577), dau. of Thomas Arnold, (see sketch of Arnold family). 
William 1 and Joanna (Arnold) Hopkins had three children, 
Frances 2 , Thomas 2 and Elizabeth 2 . Of these, Thomas 2 , (b. 
in England April 7, 1616), married his own cousin, Eliza- 
beth Arnold, dau of William and Christian (Peak) Arnold. 
He probably came to New England with his father, William 
Hopkins, and settled in Providence, R. I., about 1640. July 
27, 1640, he and thirty-eight others signed an agreement for 
a form of government. He was Commissioner in 1652, '59, 
'60 and Freeman in 1665. Feb. 19, 1665, had lot 93 in divi- 
sion of lands. 1665, '66, '67, '72, was Deputy to General Court, 
and Member of Town Council in 1667, '72. 



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Thomas 2 Hopkins moved to Oyster Bay, L. I , at the out- 
break of King Philip's War, with a son (who died before his 
father), and died there in 1684. Thomas 2 and his wife, Eliza- 
beth (Arnold) Hopkins had three children: 

William 3 , b. 1647, d. July S, 1723. 

Thomas 3 , b. 1650. d. April 21, 17 18. 

And a son who moved to Oyster Bay, L. I. 

Thomas Hopkins 3 , m. April 1, 1678, Mary Smith, dau. of 
John Smith (mason), and wife, Elizabeth, and settled upon the 
homestead belonging to his father, in the northerly part of 
the township of Providence. On this estate they reared their 
family of eight sons and four daughters — the youngest of all 
being Anne, who married Nicholas Harris, of Providence, (b. 
April 5, 167 1, d. March 27, 1746.) Thomas Hopkins made his 
will April 26, 1711, distributing in an equitable manner, his 
possessions among his children, and providing for the support 
of his widow. Much of his landed estate was situated in the 
western part of the town that was afterwards set apart to make 
the towns of Scituate and Glocester, and in this section, every 
member of his family subsequently made a settlement and 
were prominent and leading inhabitants. 

William Hopkins 1 m. Joanna Arnold. 

Thomas Hopkins 2 m. Elizabeth Arnold. 

Thomas Hopkins 3 m. Mary Smith, April 1, 1678. 

Anne Hopkins 4 m. Nicholas Harris. 
Jedediah Harris 5 m. Patience Brown. 

Nicholas Harris, M. D.6, m. Phebe Tibbits, Feb. 25, 1773. 

Nicholas Brown Harris, M. D. 7 , m. Martha Carmichael, 
Sept. 7, 1806. 

ARNOLD. 

The family of Arnold is of great antiquity, having its 
origin among the ancient princes of Wales. According to a 
pedigree in the College of Arms, they trace from Ynir, King 
of Gwentland of the twelfth century, who married Nesta, dau. 
of Jestin ap Gurgan, King of Glamorgan, and it was supposed, 
until recently, that our ancestor William Arnold, was a son 
of Thomas Arnold, of Cheselbourne, Dorsetshire, Eng., who 
was descended in a direct line from this ancient prince, but 
Mr. Edson S. Jones, of Port Chester, N. Y., after a critical 



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research of records in England, finds that theory incorrect and 
is still trying to discover the father of our ancestor William. 

The coat of arms on the Arnold grave stones in North Bury- 
ing Ground, Providence, R. I., bearing date 1770 — gu. on a 
chevron ermine, between three pheons, or., — are the same as 
borne by Richard Arnold, of Bagbere, Dorsetshire, Eng., who 
died in 1595, and who was father of Thomas Arnold of Chesel- 
bourne, referred to above. 

Joanna Arnold, sister of William, baptized Nov. 30, 1577, 
married William Hopkins, in England and emigrated to New 
England with William Arnold in 1635. 

William Arnold, b. June 24, 1587, m. Christian Peak, 
dau. of Thomas Peak, and came to New England, June 24, 
1635, with his wife and four children : Elizabeth, Benedict, 
b. Dec. 21, 161$; Joanna and Stephen. He was in Hingham, 
Mass., for a time, then came to Providence, in 1636, where he 
received grants of land from Roger Williams, and his initials 
W. A. are second in the Initial Deed. In 1639, he removed to 
Pawtuxet, where he resided until his death, about 1676. He 
was held in high esteem and filled various offices of trust. His 
eldest son, Benedict Arnold, b in Leamington, Warwickshire, 
Eng. was first Governor of Rhode Island. His eldest daughter, 
Elizabeth, m. her own cousin, Thomas Hopkins 2 , (son of 
William 1 and Joanna (Arnold) Hopkins, and their grand- 
daughter, Anne 4 Hopkins m. Nicholas 3 Harris, of Providence, 
R. I. I See Harris Genealogy, page 5. 

William Arnold 1 m. Christian Peak. 

Elizabeth Arnold 2 m. Thomas Hopkins. 

Thomas Hopkins 3 m. Mary Smith, April 1, 1678. 

Anne Hopkins 4 m. Nicholas Harris. 

Jedediah Harris 5 m. Patience Brown. 

Nicholas Harris,o M. D. m. Phebe Tibbits, Feb. 25, 1773. 

Nicholas Brown Harris 7 , M. D m. Martha Carmichael, 
Sept. 7, 1806. 

SMITH. 

John Smith (the mason) was President of the Colony of 
Rhode Island in 1649. I n l6 5 2 ne was chosen President of 
Providence and Warwick. 

In Fuller's "History of Warwick," page 76, there is a 
picture of the "Old Stone Castle" built by this John Smith in 



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1649- ^ was demolished in 1795. He died in Providence in 
1660. He was a mason and was so called to distinguish him 
from his contemporary, John Smith, the miller. 

He m. 1st and had one child, John. 

He had no children by his second wife Anne Comstock 
widow of Samuel Comstock. 

John 2 Smith, the son, b d . . . , 1687; m. 

Elizabeth ., . , b d 

1706 and had six children, the youngest of whom, Mary 3 

Smith, b , d , 17 18, m. Thomas 

Hopkins, April 1, 1678 and had twelve children. The 
youngest of the twelve was Anne Hopkins, who m. Nicholas 
Harris. 

John Smith 1 m 

John Smith 2 m. Elizabeth. 

Mary Smith 3 m. Thomas Hopkins, April 1, 1678. 

Anne Hopkins 4 m. Nicholas Harris. 

Jedediah Harris 5 m. Patience Brown. 

Nicholas Harris 6 , M. D. m. Phebe Tibbits, February 

25, 1773- 

Nicholas Brown Harris 7 , M. D. m. Martha Carmichael, 
Sept. 7, 1806. 

TIBBITS. 

Henry Tibbits, the first of the family in New England, 
lived in Kings Town, Rhode Island, and it is a tradition in the 
family that he came from Warwickshire, England. 

July 3, 1663 he and others of Narragansett desired to 
be under protection of Connecticut. 

May 3, 1665 he with others petitioned the Assembly of 
Rhode Island for accommodation of land, etc. in Kings 
Province. 

May 20, 1 67 1 he took oath of allegiance to Rhode Island, 
and Jan'y 1, 1672, he with five others bought a tract of land 
of Awashuwett, Chief Sachem of Quohesett in Narragansett — 
the two brothers and three sons of the sachem joining in the 
deed. July 29, 1679 he and forty-one others of Narragansett 
signed a petition to the King praying that he "would put an 
end to these differences about the government thereof, which 
hath been so fatal to the prosperity of the place," etc. 



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In 1690 he was Conservator of the Peace, and in 1705 
he was Deputy to the General Court. His will was made in 
1708 and proved July 13, 17 13. 

Henry Tibbits 1 , m. Dec. 166 r, Sarah Stanton, (d. . . . 
1708), dau. of Robert and Avis Stanton of Newport, R. I., and 
had eight children : Henry 2 , Ann 2 , George 2 , John 2 , Mary 2 , 
Sarah 2 , Martha 2 and Hannah 2 . 

The eldest of these eight children, Henry 2 Tibbits, (b. 

, d. Dec. 27, 1702 in Kingston, R. I.), m. Rebecca 

. . . . , (d. June 10, 1752 in Warwick, R. I.,) and had six 
children : Thomas 3 , Henry 3 , William 3 , Rebecca 3 , Avis 3 and 
Dinah 3 . 

In 1696, Henry 2 Tibbits, who m. Rebecca 

was made a freeman, and April 12, t7<03, his estate was admin- 
istered by his widow. Rebecca, at King's Town. She removed 
later to Warwick, R. I., with her family — just when is not 
known, but her descendants are still living on the farm there 
that she bought of William Potter, July 16, 1720. The will of 
Rebecca Tibbits, of Warwick, R. I., widow of Henry 2 Tibbits, 
was dated Jan'y 26, 173S and proved Aug. 10, 1752. 

Of these six children of Henry 2 and Rebecca Tibbits, 
above mentioned, the second son, Henry 3 Tibbits, m. Nov. 23, 

1738, Phebe Waterman, (b d ) dau. of 

Capt John and Anne (Olney) Waterman, of Warwick, R. I. 
Henry 3 Tibbits d. Jan'y 17, 1765. leaving five children: 

Waterman*, b. April 13, 1741, O. S , d. April 17, 1835. 

Charles 4 , b. Oct. 3, 1743. 

Elizabeth 4 , b. Nov. 9, 1746. 

Phebe 4 , b. May 26, 1748, d. April 22, 1837. 

Henry 4 , b. June , 1751, d. May 23, 1820. 

Of these five children, Phebe 4 , married Nicholas Harris, 
M. D. in 1773, and they moved up to Little Hoosick, afterward 
called Stephentown, Rens. Co., N. Y. Phebe's brother, 
Henry Tibbits, bought land along the Mohawk River, N. Y., 
and lived there, but do not know what became of his descend- 
ants. y»w Co- •rU'vn 

The compiler of these records visited the Tibbits home- 
stead in Warwick, R. I., in 1900, finding the same house in 
which her great grandmother, Phebe Tibbits Harris was born 
in 1748, in good condition, and containing much handsome old 
furniture and crockery. Mr. Benjamin Tibbits, who well 



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remembered hearing his grandfather, Waterman Tibbits, talk 
of his sister Phebe, who married Dr. Harris is still living 
there, a bachelor, the widow of his brother Daniel, keeping 
house for him. 

Henry Tibbits 1 m. Sarah Stanton, Dec. 1661. 

Henry Tibbits 2 m. Rebecca 

Henry Tibbits 3 m. Phebe Waterman, Nov. 23, 1738. 

Phebe Tibbits 4 married Nicholas Harris, M. D., Feb. 25, 

1773- 

Nicholas Brown Harris 5 , M. D., m. Martha Carmichael, 

Sept. 17, 1806. 

WATERMAN. 

Richard Waterman, born about 1590, emigrated from 
England in 1629, and first settled in Salem, Mass., where, 
according to "Original Record of Salem, from Dec. 1636 to 
July 12, 1637," he owned "So acres next to Daniel Ray," and 
had seven in family. He sympathized with the religious 
teachings of Roger Williams and followed him to Rhode Island 
in 1638, and was one of the eleven baptized by him in 1638-9; 
but later seems to have been a member of the Friends' Society, 
and his death is noted on their records at Portsmouth. He 
was one of the twelve grantees of Roger William's estate. He 
was a church officer and a Colonel of the militia and left his 
stamp upon society as a man of more than ordinary ability. 
He possessed valuable property in both Warwick and Provi- 
dence, and was buried on that part of his estate which now 
forms the southeast corner of Benefit and Waterman streets, in 
Providence, and where a monument was erected to him in 1S40. 
Col. Richard Waterman was a man of singular firmness and 
strength of character, and occupied a large place in the history 
of colonial times from the earliest settlement of Rhode Island. 

Richard 1 Waterman, (b. about 1590, d. Oct. 26, 1673), 

married Bethiah , (b , d. Dec. 13, 16S0), 

and had four children : Mehitable 2 , Wait 2 , Nathaniel 2 and 
Resolved 2 . 

Resolved 2 Waterman (b I 63S, d. . . . 1670), m. 

in 1659, Mercy Williams, (b. July, 1640, d i7°5), 

dau. of Roger and Mary (Barnard) Williams and had five 
children: Richard 3 , Mercy 3 , John 3 , Resolved 3 and Wait 3 . 



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Of these five children, Capt. John 3 Waterman was a 
prominent man, being Deputy from 1706 to 1726. He inherited 
soon after coming of age, half of all the real estate that his 
grandfather owned in Warwick, R. I. In Fuller's History of 
Warwick, (page 12), will be found a sketch of the house built 
by him in Warwick. The old cemetery is near the house where 
Capt. John, his wife, and many of his descendants are buried. 
He m. in 1691, Anne Olney, (b. Jan'y 13, 1668, d. Oct. 26, 
1745), dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth (Marsh) Olney, and had 
eight children: Elizabeth 4 , Mercy 4 , Anne 4 , John 4 , Benoni 4 , 
Resolved 4 , Phebe 4 and Patience 4 . 

Of these eight children, Phebe 4 Waterman, (b 

d ), m. Nov. 23, 1738, Henry Tibbits, (b 

d. Jan'y 17, 1765), of Warwick, R. I., and had five children: 
Waterman 5 , Charles 5 , Elizabeth 5 , Phebe 5 and Henry 5 . 

Of these five children, Phebe 5 Tibbits, (b. May 26, 1748, 
d. April 22, 1837, at North Stephentown, N. Y.), m. Nicholas 
Harris, M. D. (See Harris Genealogy, page 7). 

Richard Waterman 1 m.Bethiah 

Resolved Waterman 2 m. Mercy Williams, Jan'y 2, 1657. 

Capt. John Waterman 3 m. Anne Olney, . . . . 1691. 

Phebe Waterman 4 m. Henry Tibbits, Nov. 23, 173S. 

Phebe Tibbits 5 m. Nicholas Harris, M. D., Feb. 25, 1773. 

Nicholas Brown Harris 6 , M. D. m. Martha Carmichael, 
Sept. 7, 1S06. 

Note. — Mrs. Theodore Erdman, of Palmyra, Mo., writes me that she 
has part of a silver scissor chain, having a fiat heart-shaped charm on it, 
and on the charm, the letters P. W. are engraved, and a T scratched on 
later, which once belonged to her great-great grandmother, Phebe Water- 
man, before she married Henry Tibbits in 173S. It came to Mrs. Erdman 
through her great grandmother, Phebe (Tibbits) Harris, and grandmother 
Phebe (Harris) Vaughn. 

OLNEY. 

Arms : Three piles in a base gu. (red) on a canton, ar. 
(silver) a mullet sa. (black), crest out of a ducal coronet or 
(gold) an eagle's head in flames of fire, proper, in the mouth of 
a sprig of vert. Motto: "Silve probate Leon." 

The above is a description of the arms of Roger de Olnie, 
or Olney, who came from Normandy with William the Con- 
queror in 1066. His name appears in the Doomsday book, 



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which describes the apportionment of land to the followers of 
the Conqueror, and is claimed to be the first of the family in 
England. 

"Thomas Olney, the ancestor of the Olney's in America, 
had his birthplace in the City of Hertford, Hertfordshire, 
England, which city formed a part of the Parish of St. 
Albans. He received a "permit to emigrate to New England," 
April 2, 1635, in which permit his age was given as thirty-five, 
his wife Mary thirty, son Thomas three, and son Epenetus one, 
and came to Salem, Mass., by the ship Planter. He was 
appointed a surveyor in Jan'y, 1636, and granted forty acres of 
land at Jeffrey Creek, now known as Manchester, near Salem. 
He was made a freeman the same year and early associated 
with those who accepted the peculiar views of Roger Williams. 
With a number of others, he was excluded from the Colony 
March 12, 1638. Accordingly, with eleven others, they formed 
a new settlement at the head of Narragansett Bay, which they 
named Providence, in grateful remembrance of their deliver- 
ance from their enemies. They thus became the "Original 
Thirteen Proprietors of Providence," having purchased their 
rights from the Indians. 

Thomas Olney's prominence in the colony is shown by 
the various duties he was called upon to perform. In 1638 he 
was chosen the first treasurer. In 1647 he was chosen com- 
missioner to form a town government. In 1648 he was chosen 
Assistant for Providence and held the office almost continuously 
until 1663. In 1655, with Roger Williams and Thomas Harris, 
he was chosen a judge of the Justices Court. In 1656 he was 
chosen to treat with Massachusetts Bay about the Pawtuxet 
lands. In 1663 his name appears among the grantees of the 
Royal Charter of Charles II. In the same year he was chosen 
an Assistant under the new Charter. He was one of the 
founders of the First Baptist Church in Providence and at one 
time its acting pastor. He was evidently, a man of stern and 
decided opinions, and did not hesitate to advance his views 
among his neighbors. 

Of him, in his occupation as surveyor, it is said, as he 
entered upon the surrounding lands, with his field book, chain 
and compass, and mystic words, with the peculiar dignity of 
official characters of that day, he may well have inspired the 



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Indians with profound awe, and led them to feel that no Indian 
could henceforth dwell upon that part of their tribal property 
aeain. His homestead was located on North Main street, a 
short distance south of the State House. He was buried in the 
family ground at the rear of his dwelling. He was the pos- 
sessor of a large real and personal estate, and occupied one 
of the better houses in the Providence Plantations." — Olney 
Genealogy, by James H. Olney. 

He was born in 1600 and m. Sept. 16, 1629,'^ (See note), 

Mary Ashton, (b. Aug. 25, 1605, (h) d 1679, dau. of 

James and Alice ( ) Ashton, (c) of St. Alban's Parish, 

England), and died in 16S2. 
Children: 

Thomas 2 , b. in 1632, (d) in England, d. June 11, 1722, in 
Providence. 

Epenetus 2 , b. . . . i634, (e) in England, d. June 3, 1698, 
in Providence. 

Nebediah 2 , b. . . . , 1637, baptized in Salem, Mass., June 
27, 1637 and d. soon after July 7, 1659. 

Stephen 2 , b. 1639-40, d. in 1689. 

James 2 , b. 164 — , d. probably Oct. 17, 1676. No issue. 

Mary 2 , b. 164 — , d. in 1676. 

Lydia 2 , b. 1644-5, d. Sept. 9, 1724. 

Thomas 2 Olney, who was three years old when he came 
from England with his parents, became a leading spirit in 
the Rhode Island Colony early in life and was constantly 
engaged in public affairs to the time of his death. He was 
chosen Assistant during the years 1669, '70, '77 to '79. For 
thirty years he was a member of the Town Council, and fre- 
quently we find his name among the members of the Colonial 
Assembly. His signature occurs through a long term of years 
as Town Clerk. He was ordained a minister in 166S and suc- 
ceeded the Rev. Gregory Dexter as pastor of the First Baptist 
church, serving until about the years 17 10 to 17 15. He severely 
criticised the methods and teachings of George Fox, a leading 
Quaker who came from England and resided some years in 
the Colony, in a document entitled "Ambition Anatomized," 
the original of which may be seen at the Rhode Island Histori- 

Note. — Parish Registers of St. Albans Abbe}', 1 558-1689, transcribed 
by W. Brigg, 1897, Harpenden, Hert. (a) Page 14S, (/>) page 40, (c) page 40, 
(d) page 66, {e) page 6S. 



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cal Society. His house was located at the north end of Provi- 
dence, at the foot of Stamper's Hill. He was an owner of a 
very large tract of land, known as Wenscot farm, lying in those 
parts of Providence now forming a portion of North Provi- 
dence and Lincoln, considerable of which still remains in pos- 
session of his descendants. He was chosen to go to England 
on business for the Colony, but refused the honor. He was 
born in 1632, m. Elizabeth Marsh of Newport, R. I., July 3, 
1660 and d. June 11, 1722. He had five children: Thomas 3 , 
William 3 , Elizabeth 3 , Anne 3 and Phebe 3 . Of these children, 
Anne 3 m. John Waterman in 1691 and had eight children. Of 
these eight children, Phebe 4 m. Henry Tibbits and had five 
children, one of which, Phebe 5 , m. Nicholas Harris, M. D. 
(See Harris Genealogy, p. 7.) 

Thomas Olney 1 m. Mary Ashton, Sept. 16, 1629. 

Thomas Olney 2 m. Elizabeth Marsh, July 3, 1660. 

Anne Olney 3 m. John Waterman 1691. 

Phebe Waterman 4 m. Henry Tibbits, Nov. 23, 1738. 

Phebe Tibbits 5 m. Nicholas Harris, M. D., Feb. 25, 1773. 

Nicholas Brown Harris 6 , M. D. , m. Martha Carmichael, 
Sept. 6, 1806. 

WILLIAMS. 

In all the early history of New England, no one name 
stands out so prominent to day, in the eyes of the civilized 
world as that of the illustrious founder of " Rhode Island and 
Providence Plantations" — Roger Williams. 

After long research in England, Mr. Henry F. Waters 
claims ("Genealogical Gleanings in England" pp. 327 to 344), 
that Roger Williams was undoubtedly born in London, the son 
of James and Alice (Pemberton) Williams. James Williams 
was a merchant tailor of London, and died there in 1621, men- 
tioning in his will — wife Alice, sons, Sidrach, Roger, Robert 
and dau. Katharine Wightman, brother-in-law, Roger Pember- 
ton, etc. Roger Williams' mother, Alice, died in 1634, and in 
her will mentioned son Sidrach, son Roger, " now beyond the 
seas," son Robert, etc. Roger had a brother Robert, a school- 
master in Newport, R. I., and he mentions in one of his books 
another brother. Their mother, Alice Pemberton, was bap- 
tized in 1564 and was dau. of Robert and Catharine Pember- 



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ton of St. Albans, Hertfordshire, and a great granddaughter 
of Sir John Pemberton of Stanhope, Eng. June 25, 1621, 
Roger Williams was elected scholar in Sutton's Hospital, and 
July 7, 1625, Roger entered Pembroke College, Cambridge, 
taking his degree of Bachelor of Arts in Jan'y, 1627. He 
studied law with Sir Edward Coke, but abandoning it for the 
ministry, it was through Sir Edward's influence that he obtained 
Episcopal orders, and in 1629, was Chaplain to Sir William 
Masham of Otis, parish of High Laver, Essex Co. He soon 
espoused the cause of the Puritans or Dissenters and was fin- 
ally driven out of England by Bishop Laud. 

Roger Williams married in England Mary Barnard, and 

they embarked at Bristol, Eng. in ship Lion (Lyon), Capt. 
Wm. Pierce, Dec. 1, 1630, arriving in Boston Feb. 5, 163 1. 
His arrival gave great joy to the colonists, for he had been 
known to Winthrop and his associates in England as a "Godly 
minister " of gifts and learning, so they at once elected him 
their spiritual guide and teacher. But finding them "upon 
examination and conference an unseparated people," Williams 
in a few weeks left them for Salem, and there, April 12, 
1631, became their minister. In the latter part of 1631, he 
removed to Plymouth and became assistant pastor to Ralph 
Smith until Aug., 1633, when he returned to Salem, became 
assistant to Rev. Mr. Skelton and on the death of the latter 
(the next year), became pastor. In 1634 Roger Williams built 
him a large and commodious house in Salem, second only to 
the one built for Governor Endicott. This house, after two 
and a half centuries, was in 1886, still standing and in excel- 
lent preservation. Oct. 9, 1635, the General Court sentenced 
him to banishment from Massachusetts Colony, for his devo- 
tion to the principles of free conscience, and liberty of religious 
belief, untrammeled by civil power. 

The Court finally resolved to send him back to England, 
and in Jan'y, 1636, sent a messenger to Salem to apprehend 
him, but when the officers "came to his house, they found he 
had gone three days before, but whither they could not learn." 
In his famous letter to Major Mason, written in 1670, from 
Providence, William says: "I was sorely tossed for one 
fourteen weeks in a bitter winter season, not knowing what bed 
or bread did mean." He was given food and shelter by the 



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Indians, among whom he had worked so faithfully, finally 
reaching the place he afterward called Providence. Before 
reaching there he had been joined by five of his Salem friends, 
among whom was William Harris, and before Oct. 8, 1638, 
several more came. Among them were our ancestors, Thomas 
Harris (brother of William), William Arnold, Thomas Olney 
and Richard Waterman. To these he deeded for a considera- 
tion of ^30, an equal privilege with himself in his recent 
purchase of land from Canonicus and Miantomi, Indian chiefs. 
The "home lot" of Roger Williams in Providence, extended 
from what is now North Main street, east to what is now Hope 
street, and comprised about seven acres. The same year, 1636, 
he was banished from Massachusetts Colony, he acted as 
peacemaker and interpreter for that Colony, preventing a 
coalition of the Pequots with the Narragansetts and Mohegans. 
Of this he wrote — "Three days and nights my business forced 
me to lodge and mix with the bloody Pequot ambassadors, 
whose hands and arms me thought reeked with the blood of my 
countrymen murdered by them on the Conneticut river." 

In March, 1639, Roger Williams publicly professed his 
belief that immersion only was baptism, and founded in Provi- 
dence, the first Baptist church in America. In 1642, Roger 
Williams went to England on business for Providence Planta- 
tions. He easily obtained, through his friend Sir Henry Vane 
(formerly Harry Vane, Gov. of Massachusetts Colony), a 
charter for Providence Plantations. From 1647 to 1672, he was 
Assistant. 

In Nov. 1 65 1, he again went to England with John Clarke, 
on business for R. I. Colony, and while there, was again 
entertained at Belleau, the beautiful estates of Sir Henry Vane 
in Lincolnshire, and also speaks of being at Hugh Peters' lordly 
mansion. Williams was intimately associated with John Milton, 
then Sec'y of the Council of State, and was in friendly relation 
with Cromwell, with whom he discussed affairs of State. 

He wrote to his wife while abroad, — "My dearest love, 
and companion, in this vale of tears, I send thee, though in 
winter, a handful of flowers made up in a little posy, for thy 
dear self and our dear children to look and smell on, when I, 
as the grass of the field shall be gone and withered, etc." Soon 
after Williams returned from England, in Sept., 1654, he was 
made first President of Rhode Island Colony, and continued 



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in that office until 1657; In 1655, he was made freeman. 1658 
to 1 66 1 Commissioner; 1667 Deputy; 1670 to '80, member of 
the Town Council. May 6, 1682 he wrote Gov. Bradstreet, 
calling himself "old and weak." Jan'y 16, 1683, he signed a 
deed, and he died early in the spring of that year. 

Roger Williams was the founder of the State of Rhode 
Island and the first advocate in modern times of the entire 
freedom of conscience. The truths for whose sake he was 
persecuted and banished, and which he toiled so long to 
establish, have become incorporated into our whole social 
system, and are so familiar that they have ceased to remind us 
of their original discoverer and advocate. His life was one 
long season of incesant work, and this in nearly every sphere 
of exertion which the times presented. His knowledge, 
especially in history and theology, appears to have been 
extensive, and his scholarship in the classical languages, un- 
usually varied and exact The printed works of Roger 
Williams are : 

"A Key into the Language of America, or An Help to the 
Language of the Natives in that part of America called New 
England." London, 1643. 

"Mr. Cotton's Letter lately printed, Examined and 
Answered," London, 1644. 

"The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Cause of Conscience, 
etc." London, 1644. Mr. Cotton wrote a reply to this, and 
Mr. Williams' fourth book was a rejoinder to that of Mr. 
Cotton and was entitled, "The Bloody TenetYet More Bloody," 
London, 1652. 

"The Hireling Ministry None of Christ's," London, 1652. 

"Experiments of Spiritual Life and Health and their 
Preservatives," London, 1652. 

The last of Roger Williams' published writings is the 
account of the controversy he had with the Quakers. It was 
printed at Boston in 1676, and was entitled: "George Fox 
digg'd out of his Burrowes. " 

Roger Williams, (b 1599, d 1683, in 

Providence, R. I.), m. in England before Dec, 1630, Mary 

Barnard, (b , d 1676) and had six 

children : Mary 2 , Freeborn 2 , Providence 2 , Mercy 2 , David 2 and 
Joseph 2 . Of these children, Mercy 2 (b. July, 1640, d. . . . 
. . 1705). m. in 1659, for her first husband Resolved 2 Water- 



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man, (b. . . . , 1638, d . . . . 1670, son of Richard and 
Bethiah ( ) Waterman), and had five children : Richard 3 , 

Mercy 3 , John 3 , Resolved 3 , and Wait 3 . Of these, John 3 , (b. 
.... 1666, d. Aug. 26, 1728), m. in 1691 Anne 3 Olney, (b. 
Jan'y 13, 1668, d. Oct. 26, 1745), dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth 
(Marsh) Olney and had eight children. The seventh Phebe 4 
Waterman m. Henry Tibbits, of Warwick and their dau. 
Phebe 5 Tibbits m. Nicholas Harris, M. D. (See Harris 
Genealogy, page 7.) 

Roger Williams 1 m. Mary Barnard, before Dec, 1630. 

Mercy Williams 2 m. Resolved Waterman, . . . 1659. 

John Waterman 3 m. Anne Olney, 1691. 

Phebe Waterman 4 m. Henry Tibbits, Nov. 23, 1738. 

Phebe Tibbits 5 m. Nicholas Harris, M. D., Feb 25, 1773. 

Nicholas Brown Harris 6 , M. D., m. Martha Carmichael, 
Sept. 7, 1806. 

Note. — For details of first four generations of all the foregoing fami- 
lies, see J. O. Austin's "Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island." 

CARMICHAEL. 

Coat of Arms: — Ar. a fess wreathed, az. and gu. Crest: — 
A dexter hand and arm in armor, erect holding a broken spear, 
ppr. Motto: — Toujours pret. The fess wreathed appears 
on seals of members of this family early in the fifteenth 
century. 

The ancient domains of the noble House of Carmichael are 
of great extent — they are near Lanark, in the county of Lanark, 
Scotland — and the family has long held the first place in the 
county, with the lordly houses of Hamilton and Douglas. The 
great woods of Carmichael are stretched on two sides of the 
lofty eminence called Carmichael Hill and are distant not 
many miles from the high mountain of Tintock and the river 
Clyde. The mansion house is embowered among venerable 
trees, and altogether the scenery is sylvan, wild and striking. 

We have no trace of any other family ever having pos- 
sessed this estate. The earliest ancestor whom we find on 
record is William, Lord of Carmichael, who lived in 1350. 
But it is probable that his ancestors had held the estate for 
many previous generations. His great grandson, Sir John de 
Carmichael held high command in the Scottish auxiliary force 



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sent to the assistance of King Charles VI of France, against 
the English. He married Lady Mary Douglas, dau. of 
George, Earl of Augus, and died in 1436. 

He had two children, William, his heir, and John. The 
descendants of William flourished in an uninterrupted suc- 
cession of Barons of Carmichael for seven generations. Sir 
John was the last Baron in direct descent, and getting very 
much involved in debt, he was compelled to sell his estates 
to a distant relative, James Carmichael of Hyndford, a descend- 
dant of John, second son of the original William. Sir James 
Carmichael died at Carmichael House, in 1672, at the age of 
ninety-four. The ancient mansion has long since ceased to 
exist, but early in the eighteenth century a new house on a 
grand scale was commenced but only the wings joined by a 
gallery were completed. Carmichael House has been very 
little inhabited by the successive proprietors for some years 
and the Hyndford title has now become extinct (Burke's " Vis- 
ition of Seats and Arms," 1855). " The Carmichael pedigree 
gives only main line — there are many sources of descent belong- 
ing to the family which do not appear therein. Sir James 
Carmichael of Hyndford, 1st Lord Carmichael had two sons 
whose names do not appear in the pedigree (see Douglas), 
Captain John and Samuel Carmichael, though they are 
declared in documents signed by Lord Carmichael to be his 
4 lawful sons.' Lord Carmichael had also a brother, John, 
and in the troubles of the times at least two of them came to 
Ireland (where Rachel, sister of 1st Lord Carmichael, was — 
she m. Archibald Hamilton of Kitteleigh) and from these 
persons the Irish Carmichaels descend." (From letter of Rev. 
Canon F. F. Carmichael, D. D., Dublin, Ireland, 1903.) 

John Carmichael with two brothers, Peter and James, 
came to America — family tradition says, from Glasgow, Scot- 
land — about 1760, landing at Baltimore, Md. James is said to 
have remained in Baltimore and Peter to have gone west, 
but nothing is known positively about their descendants. 

John Carmichael was said to have learned the tailor's 
trade after coming to America, and while making clothes for 
the family of Abraham Canfield of Bedford, Westchester Co., 
N. Y. — staying at the house, as was the custom then — fell in 
love with the young daughter Esther. The attachment was 
opposed as young Carmichael was a stranger and penniless, so 



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Esther climbed out of her bedroom window one night, and 
they ran away and were married — they were afterwards 
forgiven. 

The compiler of these records has often heard her grand- 
mother, Martha Carmichael Harris (dan. of above John and 
Esther) tell of a long visit in her childhood at her grandmother 
Canfield's in Bedford, also of the gold ring sent from Scotland 
by her father's sister Nancy to his bride — Esther Canfield. 
John Carmichael and his young wife came up to Sand Lake, 
Rens. Co., N. Y., and settled on a farm where both died and 
are buried. Their original house is still standing and bears 
the impress of its once having been a large substantial house. 

John Carmichael fought in the Revolution — see " History 
of Rensselaer Co." by N. B. Sylvester, p. 579 and " New York 
in the Revolution," 2d edition, p. 104. 

1 William Carmichael b. and d. in Scotland, Glasgow (?) m. 

Martha , b. and d. in Scotland. 

Children — b. in Scotland. 

2 John 2 , b. May 5, 1740, d. Nov. 19, 1806. 

3 James 2 . 

4 Peter 2 . 

5 Nancy 2 . 

2 John Carmichael 2 m. in 1766-7 Esther Canfield (b. Nov. 

6, 1748 at Bedford, N. Y., d. Jan'y 21, 1816 at Sand 
Lake, N. Y.) dau. of Abraham and Rachel (Ketcham) 
Canfield, of Bedford, N. Y. 

Children : 

6 Elizabeth^, b , 1768, d , 1785. 

7 John 3 , b. Feb. 17, 1770, d. Nov. 9, 1814. 

8 Phebe 3 , b. Jan'y 12, 1772, d. Nov. 2 1837. 

9 Peter 3 , b. April 8, 1774, d. April 4, 1822. 

10 Rachel 3 , b d. very young. 

11 Rachel 3 , b. Sep. 9, 1777, d , 1854. 

12 Esther 3 , b. May 21, 1780, d. April 21, 1866. 

13 William 3 , b , 1782, d , 1782. 

14 William 3 , b. Aug. 3, 1784, d. Oct. 15, 1876. 

15 Martha 3 , b. April 20, 1787, d. Oct. 12, 1881. 

16 Huldah 3 , b. Oct. 18, 1788, d. March 15, 1865. 

17 Armilla 3 , b , d. very young. 



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' John Carmichael 3 m , 1794 Sarah Smith (b. . . 

. . . , 1774, d. April 20, 1822.) 
Children : 

Asahel 4 , b. Aug. 3, 1795, m - Dec. 25, 1815, Sarah Olney 
(b. Sept. 11, 1793, d. Aug. 30, 1857) lived at Western, 
N. Y. ; had 8 children: — Sarah 5 , John 5 , Eliza 5 , Asahel 
Jay 5 , Harriet 5 , Henry 5 , Susan 5 and Mary 5 — and d. Dec. 
.2, 1867. 

Elizabeth 4 , b. Aug. 5, 1797, m. 1st in 1815, Archibald 
Clark (d. in 1840) had 5 children — John 5 , Sarah 5 , 
Allen 5 , Elizabeth 5 and Harvey 5 — m. 2d ... . Mead> 
had no children — d. Jan'y 8, 1878. 

8 Phebe Carmichael 3 m. Dec. 15, 1791 William Martin 

(b. May 26, 1767, d. Oct. 19, 1809) of Galesville, N. Y. 
Children: 

Hosea 4 b. Nov. 18, 1793 m. 1st in 1828 Eliza Webster, had 

3 children — John 5 , Eliza 5 and David Hosea 5 — m. 2nd in 

1833 Charlotte Case — m. 3rd in 1837 Harriet Maxson — 

and d. July 21, 1848. 
John 4 , b. Aug. 16, 1796, m. Nov. 17, 1844, Evaline Dens- 
more — no children — and d. July 13, 1850. 
Phebe 4 , b. July 23, 1S01, m. Feb. 7, 1822, Sylvester Hol- 

lister of Middle Falls, N. Y., had 3 children — Edmund 5 , 

Caroline 5 and Erastus 5 — and d. Sept. 26, 1877. 
Hiram 4 , b. May 12, 1805, d. Oct. 19, 1809. 
Harris 4 , b. May 24, 180S, d. Sept. 20, 1873, unmarried. 
Rachel 4 , b. April 24, 181 1, m. Dec. 31, 1833 Daniel 

Edwards, of Bald Mountain, N. Y. had 3 children — 

Hosea M. 5 , Sarah E. 5 and Daniel S. 5 — and d. May 8, 

1839. 
Emily 4 , b. Feb. 23, 1814, m. Jan'y 26, 1836, Samuel 

Shepherd, had one child — Marceline 5 — and d. March 

9, 1840. 

9 Peter Carmichael 2 m. July 26, 1795, Mary Waters (b. 

July 30, 1777, d. Jan'y 16, 1846) dau. of Israel and Sarah 
(Squires) Waters of Troy, N. Y. — lived in Sand 
Lake, N. Y. 
Children : 
Silas 4 , b. Sept. 12. 1797, d. Feb. 11, 1798. 



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Sarah 4 -, b. Aug. 7, 1799, m , 1815, Stephen 

Mills (b. Sept. 17, 1792, d. Oct. 18, 1864) had 4 children — 
William Wallace 5 , John Peter 5 , Mary C, 5 , Sarah A 5 — 
and d. June 26, 1843. 

John 4 , b. Dec. 31, 1800, d. Dec. 8, 1801. 

Elizabeth 4 , b. May 30, 1802, m. 1st Nov 29, 1821, Elisha 
Sibley, had 3 children — William 5 , Maria 5 , Elizabeth 5 — 
m. 2nd in 1857, Oliver Glean and d. July . . , 1877. 

Hezekiah 4 , b. Nov. 29, 1803 m. 1st in 1826 Emily Half, 
lived at Western N. Y. and Huntley Grove, 111. — had 4 
children, Melissa 5 , Sarah 5 , Mary E. 5 and a son 5 — m. 2nd 
in 1 841, Mrs. Sarah (Buckles) Johnson and had 4 chil- 
dren, Mary E. 5 , Caroline 5 , Maria 5 , Elziemina 5 — and d. 
in 1866. 

Maria 4 , b. Oct. 10, 1805, d. July 12, 1S25. 

Esther Harriet 4 , b. June 10, 1807, m. in 1823 Levi Monroe, 
had 3 children — Harriet 5 , Levi 5 , Milton 5 — and d. Aug. , 

1857- 

Caroline 4 , b. Dec. 13, 1808, m. in 1826 Jacob Hegeman of 
West Sand Lake, N, Y., had 2 children — Mary Sophia 5 , 
William Henry 5 — and d. Oct. 187 1. 

Amanda 4 , b. Aug. 14, 1S10, m. April 15, 1830, David 
Fellows of West Sand Lake, N. Y., had 12 children — 
Andrew 5 , Mary C. 5 , John P. 5 , Caroline G. 5 , Mary Caro- 
line 5 , Albert O. 5 , Catherine Amanda 5 , Sarah Augusta 5 , 
Julia F. 5 , Emma 5 , Hezekiah L. 5 Henry D. 5 — and d. 
Aug. 1884. 

Eber Waters 4 , b. Sept. 14, 181 2, m. May 19, 1841 Miranda 
Butts (b. March 24, 1815, d. Oct. 20, 1884) dau. of 
Gideon and Betsey (Peck) Butts of Sand Lake, N. Y. — 
practiced medicine 45 years in Sand Lake — had 6 chil- 
dren—Mary C. 5 , Gideon W. 5 , John P. 5 , Mary M. 5 , Julia 
Frances 5 , Elizabeth 5 — and died Aug. 12, 1882. 

Almyra M. 4 b. Oct. 21, 1814, d , 1833. 

John Peter 4 , b. April 14, 1816, m. Oct. 20, 1842 Mary 

Rockingham (b. Jan'y 3, 1815, d ) lived 

at Rockford, 111., had 13 children — Amanda 5 , Matilda 5 , 
Henry W. 5 , Mary E. 5 , Eber A. 5 , Julia R. 5 , Sarah E. 5 , 
PhebeH. 5 , Caroline 5 , Tryphena 5 , John P. 5 , Antoinette 5 , 
Augusta M. 5 — and died May 11, 1870. 

Roxanna 4 , b. Dec. 28, 181 7, d , 1855, 

William A. 4 , b. Aug. 15, 1819, d. Nov. 15, 1819. 



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ii Rachel Carmichael 3 m. Dec. 18, 1798 Richard Du Bois. 

Children : 

Sarah 4 , b. Aug. 9, 1801 m. Dec. 14, 1820, Court Du Bois 
of Middle Falls, N. Y. — had 4 children — Pamelia 5 , 
Rachel C. 5 , Sarah 5 , Amanda 5 — and d. Sept. 13, 1830. 

Elizabeth 4 , b. July 5, 1803, m. Dec. 27, 1821 David 
Bedell — no children — and d. July 12, 1844. 

John 4 , b. July 3, 1805, d ,1811. 

Pamelia 4 ( b. Feb. 2, 1808, d ,1812. 

Cornelia 4 f " " " m. Jan 'y 29, 1826 Miles Traver, 

had 11 children — Oscar 5 , Alvah 5 , Richard D. 5 , Miles E. 5 , 
Abram C. 5 , George W. 5 , A. Judson 5 , Harvey R. 5 , 
Rachel E. 5 , Augusta 5 , Mary C. 5 — and d. Oct. 22, 1883. 

Julia 4 , b. June 23, 181 2, m. Harvey Rogers of Middle 
Falls, N. Y., had child— Julia 5 —and d. Oct. 20, 1856. 

Almyra 4 , b. March 12, 1S15, m. 1st Oct. 22, 1838 Seymour 
Carpenter — had child — Seymour 5 — m. 2nd, May 23, 1S52, 
Rev. Thomas Rogers — no children — andd. Nov. 13, 18S9. 

Emmaline 4 , b. March 27, 1822, m. Dec. 30, 1840, Richard 
Hermance (b. June 9, 1817, d. Aug. 20, 1901) — had 6 
children — Almyra J. 5 , Theodore L. 5 , Albert D. 5 , George 
C. 5 , Mary L. 5 , Emma 5 — and died Nov. 6, 1885, in 
Troy, N. Y. 
12 Esther Carmichael 3 m. March 12, 1801 Thomas Clark 

(b. April 11, 1773, d. March 4, 1S49). 
Children : 

Enos 4 , b. March S, 1802, m. Dec. 24, 1835, Mrs. Harriet 
(Heath) Calkins, had 2 children — Consider H. 5 , Edward 
A. 5 — and died March 23, 1872. 

Huldah 4 b. May 20, 1805, m. Feb. 15, 1829, Daniel Plum, 
had 3 children — Enos 5 , Edward 5 , Julia 5 — and died April 
26, 1846. 

John C 4 b. March 26, 1809, m. Sept. 10, 1835, Sarah A. 
Payne (d. 1904), had 4 children — Francis W. 5 , Albert 
H. 5 , Sarah E. 5 , William F. 5 — and died March 26, 1S73. 

Peter 4 , b. May 4, 1812, m. 1st March 2, 1836, Sarah Ann 
Ward, had 5 children — Harriet A. 5 , Maria L. 5 , Sarah 
E. 5 , Gilbert S. 5 , Hosea M. 5 — m. 2nd, Rich- 
ardson, had child — Franklin B. 5 — and d. Oct. 31, 1857. 

Maria 4 , b. June 18, 1814, m. March 5, 1835, Calvin D. 
Whipple (b. March 17, 1809) of Watertown, N. Y., had 



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S children— Amy M. 5 , William F. 5 , Mary L. 5 , John N.s 
Julia A. 5 , Esther C. 5 , Lydia M. 5 , Alonzo C. 5 — and d 
, 1888. 

Hiram C. 4 , b. Nov. 18, 1816, m. 1st Jan'y 1, 1850, Ann F. 
French of Braintree, Mass., had 2 children — Annie R. 5 , 
Catherine F. 5 — m. 2nd July 20, 1863, Clarissa Stoddard, 
no children — and died May 17, 1895. 

Esther Ann 4 , b. Nov. 28, 1820, m. Oct. 27, 1837, Franklin 
C. Beckwith (b. July 2, 1817, d. Feb. 8, 1875), lived 
at Paterson, N. J. Had 3 children — Charles D. 5 , J. 
Alexander 5 , Julia Frances 5 — and died Oct. 19, 1891. 

Juliette 4 , b. Aug. 20, 1823, m. May 29, 1853, Levi S. 
Howard (b. Jan'y 20, 1831), had 5 children — Frank C. 5 , 
Charles 5 , Judson E. 5 , Alexander B. 5 , Alice F. 5 — and 
died July 10, 1885. 

14 William Carmichael 3 m. 1st . . . . , 1S07 Elizabeth 

Clapp (b. May 25, 17S7, d. Jan'y 1, 1850), lived in 

Sand Lake, N. Y. 
Children: 

Charlotte 4 , b. Aug. 23, 1809, m. Benjamin Judson, M. D., 
had child — Harriet 5 — and died Aug. 9, 1843. 

John H. 4 , b. Sept. 24, 181 1, d. July 25, 1813. 

Sarah 4 , b. Nov. 15, 1S13, d. May 30, 1840. Unmarried. 

Phebe 4 , b. Dec. 7, 1815, d. Feb. 14, 1841, Unmarried. 

Eliza 4 , b. Feb. 27, 1818, m. William Williams, child — 
Roger 5 — live in Adrian, Mich. 

William Canfield 4 , b. June 6, 1820, m. Lorinda Lewis, 
dau. of John Lewis of East Schodack, N. Y. Had 3 
children — Charles 5 , Lewis 5 , Antoinette 5 — lives in Onawa, 
Iowa. 

John C 4 , b. July 6, 1822, d. Sept. 11, 1823. 

Rachel 4 , b. Nov. 28, 1824, d. Sept. 29, 1867. Unmarried. 

Charles A. 4 , b. Oct. 29, 1828, d , 1870-1, unmar- 
ried, in California. 

Richard D. 4 , b. Jan'y 27, 183 1, d. July 18, 1862, unmar- 
ried, near Fitchburg, in Civil War. 

m. 2nd , 1850, Mary Kelly (d. July 21, 1871). 

Children: 

John 4 b. Jan'y 29, 185 1, m. March 17, 1875, Anna Spencer 
of Lebanon, N. Y. Is now practising medicine in 
Springfield, Mass. Child — Pauline 5 , b. July 21, 1892. 



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Joseph* b. March, 18, 1S53, is a dentist in Troy, N. Y. 

Peter*, b. April 24, 1855, m. Sept. 24, 1S85, Emma Poole 
(b. Feb. 7, 1863), dau. of George and Mary (Evans) 
Poole, had 2 children — William 5 , b. Oct. 30, 1887, Albert 
P. 5 , b. Dec. 13, 1S90 — and died March 31, 1896. 

B. Franklin*, b. March 16, 1857, is a dentist in Schenec- 
tady, N. Y. m. istSept. 14, 1882, Minnie Ellis (d. May 
20, 1884). m. 2nd, Dec. 30, 1885, Linda Washburn of 
Springfield, Mass. Child — Albert E. 5 — b. Dec. 12, 1886. 

Charlotte*, b. March 15, 1859, d. April 14, 1S71. 

Albert E.*, b. Feb. 18, 1861, d. June 23, 18S2. 

James* b. March 23, 1863, m. June 10, 1887, Jennie Pearl 
of Hartford, Conn. — no children — and died Jan'y 8, 1894. 

Mary L.*, b. Nov. 21, 1865, d. Nov. 30, 1894, unmarried. 

15 Martha Carmichael 3 m. Sept. 7, 1806, Nicholas Brown 
Harris, M. D. (see Harris Geneaogy, pages 10, n, 15, 16, 

17, 25, 26, 27, for her descendants. ) 

16 Huldah Carmichael 3 m. April 3, 1S0S, Abram Conklin 
(b. Nov. 29, 1786, d. Aug. 25, 1872), son of Carpenter and 
Lucretia (Nelson) Conklin of Nine Partners, N. Y., lived 
at Sandy Hill, N. Y. 

Children: 

John Carpenter*, b. Feb. iS, 181 1, m. in Mich., April 26, 

1843, had 5 children — Harriet L. 5 , Isadore L. 5 , Andrew 

J. 5, Delia A. 5 , Mary A. 5 — died in Civil War. 
Harriet L.*, b. June 9, 1813, m. Jan'y 31, 1861, Seth 

Phillips — no children — and died Dec. 8, 1872, at 

Linmouth, Vt. 
Elizabeth*, b. April 11, 1815, m. in 1841 at Kingsbury, Vt., 

Rev. Jeremiah Murphy (d. in i860 in Topeka, Kansas). 

Had 6 children — Mary E. 5 , Ellen 5 , Marcus T. 5 , Kos- 

south 5 , Martha 5 , Jeremiah 5 — and died March 9, 1890 at 

Dickinson, N. D. 
Henry*, b. Jan'y 20, 181 7, m. Dec. 9, 1846, Mary Davis. 

Had 9 children — Mary E. 5 , Volney 5 , Albert 5 , Edward 5 , 

Ella 5 , Ida 5 , Roscoe 5 , Arthur 5 , Estelle 5 — and died in 

1902 at Zenia, Ohio. 
Sarah*, b. Sept. 13, 1819, m. Sept. 4, 1840, James M. 

Moss (d. March 8, 1872) lived in Sandy Hill, N. Y. 

Had 9 children — Montgomery 5 , Theodore 5 , Mary E. 5 , 



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Leonard 5 , Sarah Emma 5 , Edward 5 , Charles H. 5 , Car- 
rie E. 5 , Martha 5 — and died Oct. 30, 1901. 

Martha 4 , b Aug. 27, 182 1, m. June 9, 1849, Asa Stark- 
weather (d. March 18, 1872) lived at Wampun, Wis. 
Has 2 children — George 5 , Carrie 5 . 

Edward Barber*, b. Nov. 2, 1823, m. March 1, 1848 Ann 
Moss — no children. Are living at Campbell, Santa 
Clara Co., Cal 

Volney Brown 4 , b. June 29, 1826, m. May 14, 1851, Lucy 
Noyes; live in Lake City, Minn. Have 4 children — 
Henry 5 , Judson 5 , Eva 5 , George 5 . 

Esther Carolina 4 , b. Nov. 1, 1828, m. 1st, Jan'y 29, 1868, 
James E. Norton (d. Sept. 28, 1875) of Hartford, N. Y. 
m. 2nd, Dec. 24, 1879, Daniel Edwards of Bald Mt., 
N. Y. (d. March 9, 1889). No children. 

H. Amanda 4 , b. July 31, 1831, m. March 5, 1868, Horace 
Taber of Greenwich, N. Y. No children — and died 
Feb. 9, 1885. 

CANFIELD. 

Arms: Arg. a fret engrailed sa. 

The name Can field, Camfield or Camfyld is a corruption 
of Camville or Camvyle, a Norman baronial family from Cam- 
ville near Contance, Normandy, France. 

In Normandy, Canville now exists, a place about five 
miles from Contance — the river and valley Cance are near 
by. William de Camville is noted as benefactor of church of 
Jumieges, France, in 978. 

In Battle Abbey, (at Battle of Hastings in 1066), are found 
W. de Camvile, G. de Kamvile and Richard de Camvile. 
In "Domesday Book 1086," Richard de Camville, surnamed 
Puingnant, held several grants of land in Oxford, Middleton 
and other counties, from William the Conqueror, some of 
which land still belongs to descendants of the family. The 
name in England at present exists in Hertfordshire, a residence 
called Camfield Place. In Essex: Little Canfield, Great 
Canfield, Canfield Park, Lodge, Hall, etc. In Northampton- 
shire, at Harleston, there is Camfeld Hedge. In Lancashire, 
the de Canfield's have lived for some six hundred years. 



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Matthew Canfield, (or Campfield), our first American 
ancestor, was b. at Harleston, Newbottle Hundred, Co. North- 
ampton, England, baptized in St. Andrew's church, Feb. 27, 
1604, and was son of Gregorie Calmfeilde, whose will was 
proved in 1635. It is probable that Matthew came to America 
soon after this. He was first heard of in New Haven Colony 
in 1639; became a member of the Congregational church in 
1642; signed oath of fidelity July 1, 1644 and was one of the 
first settlers to become a free planter and possess property. He 
held various positions in the Colony: Collector of College, 1644; 
Appraiser 1646, etc. In 1652, he conveyed home lot in New 
Haven and moved to Norwalk, Conn. In Norwalk Colony he 
was again prominent, holding office of Juryman, Arbitrator, 
Magistrate, Representative, Surrogate, Collector of Customs 
and Inspector of Troops. He and three others signed petition 
to Charles II. in 1 664 for Charter of Conneticut, and he is named 
in the Charter granted in 1665 — historically known as hidden in 
the Charter Oak at Hartford. He held much land in Norwalk, 
and conspicuously a pasturage called to this day "Camfield 
Island." In 1666, becoming dissatisfied with this Colony in its 
desire to consolidate with New Haven Colony, Matthew 
Campfield (or Canfield), moved to Newark, N. J., with thirty- 
nine others and founded that city. At Newark, he was one of 
the few honored with the prefix "Mr." and at once became 
prominent in the affairs of the town, being Deputy, then 
Magistrate, etc. 

He m. in New Haven, Conn., before 1643, Sarah Treat, 
dau. of Richard Treat and sister of Robert Treat, afterward 
Governor of Conneticut. His original will, dated March 19, 
1673, is on file at Trenton, N. J., and was proved June 11, 
1673. He had nine children : Samuel 2 , bap. Oct. 19, 1645, 
Sarah 2 , bap. May 24, 1647, Ebenezer 2 , b. . . . 1649, Matthew 2 , 
b. . .1650, Hannah 2 , b. June 21, 1651, Rachel 2 , b. July 29, 
1652, Mary 2 , Ruth 2 and Jonathan 2 . His children went to 
Newark, N. J., with him, but his eldest son, Samuel, returned 
to Norwalk, Conn., in 1668. (See Canfield Genealogy, by 
Frederick A. Canfield, for descent of sons who remained in 
Newark, N. J.) 

Samuel 2 Canfield, eldest son of Matthew and Sarah (Treat) 
Canfield, was baptized Oct. 19, 1645, at New Haven, Conn. 
He m. about 1668, Elizabeth Willoughby, dau. of Francis 



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Willoughby, Deputy Governor of Mass., and her son Jedediah 
Canfield mentions her in his will as the "Honorable," a title 
then, as now given to ladies of rank. Samuel Canfield seems 
to have bought and sold a great deal of property in Norwalk, 
Conn., some of which is still known as Campfield Hill, Pond, 
Field, etc. He d. in 1690, leaving five children : Ebenezer 3 , 

b. 1670; Abigail 3 , b , 1673; Matthew 3 , b . . . . ; 

Samuel 3 , b 1679; Jedediah 3 , b 1681 ; and his 

widow Elizabeth, his executrix. She made an agreement with 
her children about the distribution of property in 1701 and 
must have died soon after. 

The youngest child, Jedediah 3 , b. 1681, sold much of his 
property in Norwalk between 1702 and 1729, for there are 
recorded about thirty deeds of conveyance from him. There 
is a suggestion that he m. Hannah Betts, but no proof as yet. 
In 1730 he moved to Bedford, N. Y., and bought the land 
which was held by his descendants until 1850. Jedediah's 3 
children were: Abraham 4 , b. March . . . , 1720; Jedediah 4 
m. Rose Ketcham ; Joseph 4 ; Nathan 4 ; Lydia 4 m. Drake Miller; 
Elizabeth 4 m. Abram Wescott and James 4 . Jedediah's eldest 
son, Abraham 4 , was b. at Norwalk, March 1720, m. probably in 
Bedford, N. Y. , Rachel Ketcham, Jan'y 27, 1748, and lived on 
his father's property at Bedford, where he d. Sept. 29, 18 13. 
When the Revolutionary War broke out, Abraham Canfield 
was too old to enlist, but some of his brothers served. The 
house in which Abraham lived, was attacked by the British, in 
July, 1779, they taking possession of everything they wished, 
and when they left, set fire to the house, but the fire was 
extinguished in time to save the house. Abraham 4 and Rachel 
(Ketcham) Canfield had eleven children: 

Esther 5 , b. Nov. 6, 1748, d. Jan'y 21, 1816, m. John 
Carmichael, 1766-7. 

Nathan 5 , b. Sept. 5, 1750, d , m. Hannah 

Sutherland. 

Ashel 5 , b. Nov. 23, 1752, d. Oct. n, 1761. 

Eli 5 , b Nov. 26, 1754, d. Oct. 21, 1761. 

Ezra 5 , b. Nov. 5, 1756, d. Feb. 15, 1761. 

Rachel 5 , b. Oct. 5, 1760, d. Oct., 1761. 

Rachel 5 , b. Nov. 30, 1762, d. Oct. 31, 1833, m. Jonathan 
Mills in 1786. 



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Abrahams, b. Nov. 20, 1764, d. Aug. 10, 1836, m. Jerusha 
Roberts. 

Enos 5 , b. Jan'y 28, 1767, d. June 6, 1S26, m. 1st, Polly 
Robertson in 1784, 2nd Mary Clark. (?) 

Amos 5 , b. March 5, 1770, d. Dec. 8, 1826, m. Theodosia 
Palmer. 

Jehieis, b. Sept. 5, 1773, d. May 1, 1S40, m. 1st, Bethiah 
Clark in 1797; 2nd, Sarah Howe. 

Esther Canfleld, the eldest of the eleven children, m. John 
Carmichael and had twelve children, of which, Martha, m. 
Nicholas Brown Harris, M. D. (See Harris Genealogy, 
page 10). 

Gregorie Calmfeilde 1 , bap. 1570, at Harleston, North- 
ampton, Eng. Will 1635, m. Joan. 

Matthewe Calnfielde 2 m. Sarah Treat. 

Samuel Camfield 3 m. Elizabeth Willoughby. 

Jedediah Canfield 4 m. Hannah Betts, (?) 

Abraham Canfield 5 m. Rachel Ketcham. 

Esther Canfield 6 m. John Carmichael. 

Martha Carmichael 7 m. Nicholas B. Harris, M. D. 

Note. — I am indebted to Mr. Van Beck Canfield of New York, who is 
compiling a Canfield Genealogy, for the early history of the family in 
England. 

WILLOUGHBY. 

Arms: — Or. fretty az. Crest — a lion's head guardant, 
couped at the shoulders, or, between two wings expanded, or, 
fretty az. — mantled gu., doubled arg. 

Francis Willoughby came to New England in 1638, with 
his first wife Mary, and a young son Jonathan, and is alluded to 
as "a gentleman from England." William Willoughby, the 
father of Francis, was a native of Kent, Eng., and for some- 
time commander of a vessel, and was an officer in the Royal 
Navy. He was Colonel in the Regiment of the Tower, and 
finally Master Attendant for Portsmouth, and Commissioner of 
the Royal Navy. His remains were interred in St. Thomas' 
Church, Portsmouth, Eng., where is to be found a mural 
tablet to his memory, above which his arms are emblazoned — 
the old Willoughby de Eresby. These arms were used by his 
son, Francis Willoughby, who came to New England in 1638 



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and settled at Charlestown, Mass., where he was Ensign in the 
Militia, and a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery. 
In 1640, his wife Mary having died, he returned to England 
and married Sarah, dau. of John Tailer (or Taylor), of Wrap- 
ping — ship builder to the Navy and one of the Commissioners 
of the Navy, by appointment of Parliament. In 1642, on his 
return to New England, Francis Willoughby was Represent- 
ative to the General Court, and again in 1649-50. Assistant in 
1650-51. In 1651, he again returned to England to settle his 
father's estate, and remained until 1662. While in England 
he was made Commissioner of the Royal Navy, and Jan'y 8, 
1658-9, he was chosen as member of Parliament for Ports- 
mouth and "had the unanimous suffrages of the Mayor, Alder- 
man and Burgesses." The last mention of Capt. Willoughby 
as Commissioner in England, is in April, 1660. 

His second wife Sarah Tailer (or Taylor), had died while 
in England, leaving five children and he married the third 
time, Mrs. Margaret (Locke) Taylor and brought her and his 
family to America in April, 1662. In 1665 he was chosen 
Deputy-Governor of Massachusetts, and served until his death 
in 1671, and was buried at Charlestown, Mass Deputy-Gov- 
ernor Willoughby left a large estate valued at ^4812, 18s jd. 
In his inventory are mentioned : "Mansion House, stable and 
grounds about the house. " They were situated on Crooked 
Lane, near the old Market Place (i.e. on Bow street, near the 
Square). After naming over ware-houses and wharf and 2450 
acres of land, "in money and plate 600 ounces," various pieces 
of furniture are mentioned, indicating a handsome establish- 
ment. 

One of his descendants, Mrs. B. A. Hayes, of Toledo, 
Ohio, possesses a table cloth embroidered by Queen Elizabeth 
of England, while she was Princess and confined in the Tower 
of London. It was given by the Princess Elizabeth to her 
cousin, Margaret Willoughby (then her maid of honor, after- 
ward Lady Arundel of Wardour), and handed down by her 
brother, Sir Francis Willoughby, Knight of Wollaton, through 
his daughter Bridget, who married her cousin, Sir Percival 
Willoughby, of Bore Place, and cousin to Col. William 
Willoughby. 

The ancestor of the Willoughby's in Virginia, was a Col. 
Thomas Willoughby, Councilor, a cousin of Deputy-Governor 



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Francis Willoughby. Sir Digby Wentworth, Bayard, 9th 
Baron Middleton, now represents the united houses of de 
Eresby and Wollaton Willoughbys in England. (See "Family 
Histories and Genealogies," by Edward Elbridge Salisbury 
and Evelyn MacCurdy Salisbury, New York State Library,) 
where a chart of the Willoughby family may be found, from 
which I have only taken our direct line of ancestors. 

Sir William 1 de Willoughby, Kn't, died 1306; descended 
from John de Wilegby (or Willoughby), a Norman Knight, 
who had the Lordship of Willoughby, Co. Lincoln, by gift of 
William the Conqueror — married Alice, dau. and co-heiress of 
John de Beke, Baron de Eresby, who was of the sixth genera- 
tion from Walter de Bee, a Norman, created Lord de Eresby, 
by William the Conqueror. 

Robert 2 , 1st Baron Willoughby de Eresby, m. Margaret, 
dau. of Edmund, Lord Denicourt 

John 3 , 2nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby, m. Joan, dau. 
and heiress of Sir Thomas Rosceline. 

John 4 , 3rd Baron Willoughby de Eresby, m. Cicely, dau. of 
Robert de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk. 

Robert 5 , 4th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, m. 1st, Alice, 
elder dau of Sir William Skipwith, Judge of the King's Bench 
(Edward III.) Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. 2nd, 
Margery, dau. of William, Lord Zouch of Harringworth. 3rd, 
Elizabeth, dau. and heiress of William, Lord Latimer, and 
widow of John Nevil, Lord Raby. 

Sir William 6 , 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby (son by first 
marriage), m. 1st, Lucy, dau. of Roger, Lord Strange of 
Knockyn. 2nd, Joan, dau. of Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent, 
(by Joan (Plantagenet), surnamed the Fair Maid of Kent, only 
dau. of Edmund (Platagenet), of Woodstock, Earl of Kent, 
son of Edward I), and widow of Edmund of Langley, Duke of 
York, son of King Edward III. She m. 3rd, Henry, Lord 
Scope, and 4th, Henry Bromflete, Lord Vesey. 

Sir Thomas 7 Willoughby (son by first marriage), m. 
Joan, dau. and co-heiress of Sir Richard Fitzalan Knt, grand- 
son of the 3rd Earl of Arundel. 

Sir Robert 8 Willoughby, m. Cicely, dau. of Leo (or 

Lionel), Lord Welles, sister of Richard, Baron Welles. 

Note. — Through the Plantagenet ancestry of Cicely, daughter of Lord 
Welles, her descent can be traced back to William the Conqueror, Alfred 
the Great and Charlemange. 



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Sir Christopher^ Willoughby, K. B , b. 1453, d. 1499. 
Will proved July 13, 1499, m - Margaret, dau. of Sir William 
Jenney (or Jennius) Knt, of Knottishall, Co. Suffolk. 

Sir Thomas 10 Willoughby, Chief Justice of Common Pleas, 
will, dated July 20, 1544, proved Nov. 5, 1545, m. Bridget, 
dau. of Sir Robert Read, Knt, of Bore Place, Co. Kent, Chief 
Justice of the Common Pleas. 

Christopher 11 Willoughby, of St. George, the Martyr, 
Southwark, Co. Surrey, will proved Jan'y 11, 1586, m. Margery 
Tottishurst, sister of Thomas Tottishurst, executor of her 
husband's will. 

Christopher 12 Willoughby of Chiddingstone, Co. Kent, 
living in 1620, d. before 1633, m. Martha 

Col. William 13 Willoughby of London and Portsmouth, b. 
in Kent Co., Eng. , in 1588, d. in Portsmouth, Eng. , March 3, 
1 65 1, m. Elizabeth 

Francis 14 Willoughby, Member of Parliament for Ports- 
mouth, Eng., b. in England, d. at Charlestown, Mass., April 
3, 167 1, Deputy-Governor of Mass., m. 1st, Mary .... and 
had one son, Jonathan; m. 2nd, in 1640, Sarah Tailer [or 
Taylor], dau. of John Taylor of Wapping, England and had 
five children, of which Sarah was the eldest and was baptized 
June 13, 1641. 

Sarah 15 Willoughby m. Samuel Canfield, about 1668. 

Jedediah 16 Canfield m. Hannah Betts. (?) 

Abraham 17 Canfield m. Rachel Ketcham, Jan'y 27, 1748. 

Esther 18 Canfield m. John Carmichael, 1766-7. 

Martha 19 Carmichael m. Nicholas Brown Harris, M. D. 
Sept. 7, 1806. 

TREAT. 

John Trott, [as the name was then spelled], lived at Staple- 
grove, near Taunton, England. His name occurs in the 
Calendar of Taunton Manor Rolls in 145S, '63, '73, '79. The 
name of William Trott, his son, occurs in these same calendars 
for the years 1 503-4-10. Richard, the son of William, was 
also mentioned in Staplegrove, 15 10, Poundiford 1534 and 
Otterford 1527-1540 and died in 1 57 1 . He m. Joanna .... 
Robert, son of Richard, was baptized in the hamlet of Trendle, 
now Trull, a parish of Pitminster, where he was buried Feb. 
16, 1599. He m. Honora who was buried Sept. 



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17, 1627, at Pitminster, Eng. His son Richard, was baptized 
Aug. 28, 1584 in Pitminster, Somerset, Eng. He emigrated 
to New England about 1637, and with Matthias Treat, who 
was probably a relative, founded the Treat family in America. 
The name on records here was spelled variously, Trott, Tratt, 
Trett, Treat, etc. 

Indeed Richart Treat, the American ancestor, was bap- 
tized under the name of Trott, married by the name of Trett 
and buried with the name of Treat. Richard Treat was always 
designated in the early Colonial records by the title of Mr. or 
Master. He was a gentleman of high character, and was 
among the first planters of Wethersfield, Conn., as early as 
1640. In 1642 he was appointed by the General Court in con- 
nection with Gov. Wyllys and others to superintend building a 
ship, and to collect revenue for that object. Richard Treat in 
1654 was Ensign for the train band of Wethersfield, Conn., 
was Deputy for ten years. In 1644 he was chosen one of a 
committee for maintaining scholars at the college in Cam- 
bridge, Mass. He was elected Magistrate eight times from 
1658-1665, and was one of the Palantees mentioned in the 
Connecticut charter of 1662. In 1664 he was a member of 
Gov, Winthrop's council. 

He married in Pitminster, England, April 27, 1615, Alice 
Gaylard, baptized May 10, 1594 in Pitminster, Eng., died in 
Wethersfield, Conn., probably after 1670, as she survived her 
husband. She was a daughter of Hugh Gaylard, who was 
buried Oct. 21, 16 14 in Pitminster, and whose will is recorded 
in the Taunton Probate Court in 16 14. Richard Treat died in 
Wethersfield, Conn., 1669-1670. Richard and Alice (Gaylard) 
Treat had ten children, born and baptized in Pitminster, Eng. 

Of these, the third, Sarah Treat, was baptized Dec. 3, 
1620 and married about 1644, Matthew Campfield (or Canfield) 

and died in Newark, N. J. One of her brothers, 

Robert Treat, was Governor of Connecticut and his name 
occupies a large space in the Memorial Bridge at Milford, 
Conn. (See "The Treat Family," by John Harvey Treat, 
A. M., 1893, t° which I am greatly indebted for much of the 
above). 

John* Trott m. 

Williams Trott m. 



Richard^ Trott m. Joanna 



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Robert 4 Trott m. Honora 

Richard 5 Treat m. Alice Gaylard, April 27, 1615. 
Sarah 6 Treat m. Matthew Canfield, about 1643-4. 
Samuel 7 Canfield m. Sarah Willoughby, about 1668. 
Jedediah 8 Canfield m. Hannah Betts (?). 
Abraham 9 Canfield m. Rachel Ketcham, Jan'y 27, 1748. 

Esther 10 Canfield m. John Carmichael, 1766-7. 

Martha 11 Carmichael m. Nicholas Brown Harris, Sept. 
7, 1806. 

FOWLER. 

Arms: Azure on a chevron, ar. between three lions, pas- 
sant, guardant, as many crosses forme, sa. Crest: A vigilant 
owl. Motto: Possunt quia posse videntur. 

"An old and rare book published in the early days of type 
setting, giving the origin and signification of all the family 
names in England, says, that a Saxon chief fond of the chase 
and being a daring hunter, was called Fowler. This Fowler, 
accompanied by a numerous band of retainers and followers, 
went to England about a hundred years before the destruction 
of the Heptarchy and the union of all the kingdoms of England 
into one, under Egbert, and settled in Sussex." 

Prior to the reign of Richard I genealogical investigation 
throws no light on the pedigree of the Fowlers. So Sir 
Rychard Fowlere or le Fowlere, of Foxley, County Bucks, time 
of Coeur de Lion, 1189-90, was the progenitor of the family. 
He held large estates in that county and accompanied King 
Richard to the Holy Land. The arms he bore were azure on 
a chevron, argent, between three lions passant, gardant, as 
many crosses forme sa. Crest, a hand holding a falcon's lure. 
During the war he maintained there a body of British bowmen, 
all his own tenants. At the seige of Aeon (or Acre) he 
defeated, by his extraordinary vigilance, a nocturnal attempt 
of the infidel to surprise the Christian camp; for these services 
he was Knighted by his royal master on the field of battle, and 
ordered thereafter to wear a new crest, viz. : the vigilant owl. 
See also Kimber, Vol. Ill, p. 11- 12. The two principal seats 
where the Fowlers lived in Buckinghamshire in the reigns of 
Queen Elizabeth, James I and Charles I, were Buckingham- 
town and vicinity and Aylesbury, and as the latter place may be 
regarded as the center from which emigrated the original set- 



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tiers of Milford, Conn., it is supposed that "Mr." William 
Fowler, the first New England ancestor, came from that section. 

In Neals "History of the Puritans," chapter VIII, 
"William Fowler" is mentioned as a prisoner in Bridewell with 
other Puritans, in the year 1592. From many facts, one being, 
he was called an old man in 1639, it * s thought that the prisoner 
was the William Fowler who came to this country with Rev. 
John Davenport, Gov. Eaton, Rev. Peter Prudden and "others 
of good character and fortune," landing in Boston June 26, 1637. 
He went first to New Haven, Conn., but in the spring of 1639 
was one of the settlers of Milford; was the first named of the 
trustees, and the only one bearing the honorable prefix of "Mr." 
At the first meeting of the Milford Company he was chosen one 
of the "Judges." The Church was organized in 1639 and he 
was elected one of the "seven pillars." He was also elected 
Chief Magistrate in 1643, and reappointed yearly to 1654. 

The deed of Milford was given to William Fowler, Edmund 
Tapp and two others, in trust for the body of planters. 

In the Memorial Stone Bridge at Milford, a buttress 
extends from the tower towards the north, ending in a seat 
made from the first mill stone used in the colony, on which is 
inscribed "Mr. William Fowler, Obit 1660. The founder of 
this the first Mill in the Colony in 1639, wherein he used this 
stone." 

From the time of his owning the mill, nine generations of 
Fowlers have successfully conducted its operations and 
recently (in 1889) the eighth William Fowler has completed the 
fifth mill on the precise spot. The present proprietor's grand- 
son is the tenth William Fowler in a direct line. 

That "Mr." William Fowler was among those of the first 
settlers who had received a classical education in his native 
country, is presumed from manuscripts in the possession of 
Rev. Erastus Scranton, settled at North Milford in the early 
part of the last century, which state that he (William Fowler) 
had various valuable classical books which were lent to sundry 
individuals by him. 

William Fowler died January 25, 1660. 

The original seven acres allotted to William Fowler for a 
homestead are still in possession of the Fowler family. 

In the summer of 1899 the compiler of these records had 
the pleasure of visiting all these places of interest in Milford 



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and learning many interesting- facts through the kindness and 
courtesy of Mrs. George M. Gunn, (Harriet C. Fowler) dau. of 
the late Judge John W. Fowler, author of "An Historical 
Sketch and Genealogical Record of the Fowlers of Milford, Ct. " 
from which much of the foregoing has been gleaned. Mr. 
William Fowler's will was presented by his son, William, to the 
General Court of the Colony, 1661, but was not recorded, and 
being unfortunately lost, we are without a guide as to all of his 
family. 

Capt. William- Fowler, son of William Fowler the " Mag- 
istrate," did not go to Milford with his father, but remained at 
New Haven where he took the oath of fidelity, 1644, and was 
admitted to the General Court in 1645. At East Haven "Fow- 
ler's Cove" and "Fowler's Creek," now so called, were named 
from him. He was chosen successively Sergeant, Lieutenant 
in 1666, and Captain, in 1673, of the Town Company, and is 
mentioned in the Colonial Records of Hartford and New Haven 
as one to raise troops as a defense against a threatened incursion 
of the Dutch. He was a member of the House of Deputies 
from 1673 to 1680 inclusive, from Milford. Like his father, he 
owned a mill, about two miles from New Haven, on the site of 
the establishment for the manufacture of firearms, erected by 
Eli Whitney. Capt. William Fowler married first as early as 
1645 Mary Tapp, dau. of Edmund and Ann Tapp (sister of Jane 
Tapp, wife of Governor Treat) by whom were born to him all 
his children. He married second, Nov. 1, 1670 at Milford, 
widow Elizabeth (Alsop) Baldwin. He removed from New 
Haven to Milford about the time of his father's death 1660, 
inheriting his father's possessions there, and died there in 1682. 
His will was probated in New Haven June 13, 1683. He gave 
one-half mill property to " his eldest son, John, to encourage 
him to tend the mill built by his father." From this John 
Fowler is descended the late Judge John W. Fowler of Milford, 
author of pamphlet on Fowlers of Milford, above referred to. 

Of his eleven children, the fifth, Mark 3 , was born in New 
Haven, baptised there Jan'y 17, 1655-56; was a proprietor 
of that town in 1685 where he died in 1686, leaving a widow 
Mary (who died July 1688) and three children (John 4 , Thomas 4 , 
Mary 4 ); will probated 1687 and in 1702 their father's property 
was divided among these children, about which time they 
settled in Lebanon, Ct. 



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John Fowler, eldest of the three children, born in New 
■Haven March i, 16S0-1, baptised May 29, i68r, was one of the 
first settlers of Lebanon, Ct. , going there when twenty-one, 
and purchasing land of John Mason. Five generations of 
Fowlers have lived on the spot, and in 1857 it was owned by 
Gen. Amos Fowler, the first house having been built by John 
about 1702. 

John Fowler married Sarah Abbe, dau. of Samuel Abbe 
of Lebanon, about 1707. 

"Mr. Fowler died May 8, 1751 in the 73d year of his age 
having served God and his generation faithfully, being very skil- 
ful and successful in throat distemper." His will is dated April 
5, 1743 and probated 1 75 1. His widow Sarah (Abbe) Fowler's 
will was probated 1774 in which year she died, aged 88. 

Of John Fowler's five children, Adijah was born at Leba- 
non, June 10, 1717 and married Abigail Bigelow dau. of Sergt. 
Isaac Bigelow of Colchester, Ct., Dec. iS, 1745. Capt. Dijah 
Fowler was in the Revolutionary War. His name was on "list 
of men who marched from Connecticut towns for the Relief of 
Boston in the Lexington Alarm, April, 1775." (See "Record 
of Connecticut men in the War of the Revolution.") 

Capt. Fowler was a man much in public life and held in 
high estimation for his social and generous nature and strictly 
moral character. He died Dec 14, 1804 in his 88th year. His 
wife, born April 13, 1723, dec'd June 9, 1796. 

Of their seven children, Mark was born May 9, 1756, mar- 
ried Sept. 11, 1777, Miriam (Sterling) Warner (b. May 8, 1755, 
dau. of John and Jane (Ransom) Sterling of Lyme, Conn.) 
widow of Reuben Warner, and removed from Lebanon, Conn, 
to Litchfield, Herkimer Co., N. Y. then the far west, and with 
his numerous family of sons, were the pioneers in clearing the 
forests. He died there April 27, 181 3, his widow surviving 
him until Jan'y, 1843. 

Mark Fowler fought in the Revolution in Capt. Daniel 
Throop's Company of Militia Horse of Lebanon, Ct., "Oct. 5, 
1779, a return of men detatched from the Second Regiment of 
Light Horse in the State of Conneticut, to serve in the Con- 
tinental Army until the 15th of Jan'y next, etc." (See "Records 
of Conneticut men in War of Revolution"). 

Children of Mark and Miriam (Sterling) Warner Fowler: 

Reuben Warner 7 , b. Aug. 23, 1778, m. . . . 1806, Sybil 
Sawyer and had Anna 8 , m Stark, 3 chil. ; 



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Harvey 8 , m. Fanny Blair, six chil. ; Henry 8 , m. Mary 
Page, 7 chil.; Thomas M. 8 , m. Harriet, dau. of Judge 
Everett, 7 chil. 

David?, b. June 9, 1780, m 1803, Mrs. Lavinia 

(Palmer) Hatch, and had: Buel 8 , Jerusha s , Edmund 8 , 
all married, with children. 

Adijah 7 , b. March 12, 1782, m. . . . 1801, Lydia Guild 
and had: Almyra 8 , Norman 8 , Emily 8 , Maria 8 , Ovisville 8 , 
Mary 8 , Samuel G. 8 , John 8 , all married, with children. 

Philena 7 , b. Jan'y 30, 1784, m. 1st, George Bunday 2nd, 
Lyman Kinney, had 8 children. 

Amos?, b. Nov. 15, 17S6, m. Aug. 27, 1810, Achsah 
Raymond, (b. Nov. 15, 1786, d. Dec. 1, 1863), dau. of 
John Raymond, and had: Addison M. 8 , b. Jan'y 27, 1812, 
m. Jan'y 21, 1840 Nancy Addison, children; Addison 
M. 9 , and Henry L. 9 and d. Dec. 25, 1896, in Binghamton, 
N. Y. ; Warren R. 8 , b. March 19, 1815, m. April 12, 
1837, Charlotte J. Cheesebro, children; Charles 9 , Clara 9 , 
and d. Dec. 20, 1898, in Rialto, Cal. ; Leroy Z. 8 , b. Nov. 
11, 1817, m. April 7, 1847, Lucinda Ball, children; 
Mary 9 , Frank 9 , and died Sept. 16, 1871, in Wenona. 111.; 
F. Maria 8 , b. July 28, 1820, m. Sept. 12, 1838, John W. 
Cook, no children, died Nov. 21, 1898 in Syracuse, N. Y. ; 

Almira 8 , b. Dec. 4, 1823, m 1853, George W. 

Menzie, no children, and died May 16, 1865, in Canastota, 
N. Y. ; Malvina 8 and Paulina 8 , b. Jan'y 28, 1828. Mai 
vina 8 , m. Jan'y 28, 1852, Seabury A. Tuller, children; 
Edward 9 Helen P. 8 , (m. Samuel C. Hunter, and lives in 
Syracuse, N. Y.) Paulina 8 , m. April 7, 1847, Enos V. 
Robbins, children, Alice 8 , (m. Henry Humphrey) ; 
William 9 . 

Fanny 7 , b. Dec. 25, 1789, m. 1st, Jesse Baker, and, 
Jacob Madole, had 7 children. 

Mary 7 , b. May 9, 1792, m. 1st, Josiah Fuller, 2nd, 
Charles Ensign, had 6 children. 

Abigail b. June 2, 1798, m. James Barnard, of 

Mich, had 9 children. 

Alvin 7 , b. Jan'y 25, 1795, m - J an 'y 2 4i l8l 9> Olive Lord 
(b. Aug. 4, 1793 at Lyme, Conn., d. July 14, 1877 in 
Charlotte, Mich, and is buried at Albany, N. Y., dau. of 



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Theophilus and Olive (Hungerford) Lord, of Lyme 
Conn.) and died July 8, 1881 in Albany, N. Y. 
Children: 

Amos 8 , b. July 5, 1820 in Cohocton, N. Y., d. Oct. 23, 
1895, in Albany, N. Y. 

Emily 8 , b. Jan'y 8, 1825, in Evan's Mills, N. Y., d. Sept. 
7, 1 86 1, in Oswego, N. Y. 

Dwight 8 , b. Sept. 20' 1827, in Fayetteville, N. Y., d. Sept. 
3, 1863, in Indiana. 

John Nelson 8 , b. May 26, 1831, in Fayetteville, N. Y., d. 
May 15, 1889, in Fremont, Mich. 
Amos 8 Fowler, M. D. m. Aug 29, 1850, M. Carolina Harris 

(b. June 14, 1823, d. April 2, 1SS0), dan. of Nicholas B. 

Harris, M. D. and Martha (Carmichael) Harris. Lived in 

Albany. 
Children: 

Warren H. 9 , b. Sept. 13, 1852, d. Jan'y 23, 1886, unmarried. 

Caroline I. 9 , b. Sept. 17, 1857, m. Sept. 10, 1896, Thomas 
H. Ham, and lives in Albany. 

Martha H. 9 , b. April 19, 1861, d. Jan'y 22, 1864. 

Frank H. 9 , b. March 17, 1865, d. June 28, 1865. 
Emily Fowler 8 , m. Oct. 8, 1850; William Pease of Oswego, 

N. Y. (b. Sept. 11, 1827, n. March 31, 1865), son of Daniel 

Pease. 
Children: 

Alvin Fowler, 9 b. April 10, 1852 at Oswego, N. Y., gradu- 
ate of Brown University, 1875, m - July 6, 1882, M. Belle 
Clark (b. Aug. 22, 1855, at Pawtucket, R. I., dau. of 
Daniel A. and Mary Smith [Bliss] Clark). Lives in 
Maiden, Mass. Children: Harold Alvin 1 b. Oct. 30, 
1883 and died very young; Irving Clifton 10 b. July 7, 
1885, at Pawtucket, R. I., d. May 3, 1895, at Northamp- 
ton, Mass. ; Edith B. 10 , b. Aug. 18, 1888, at St. Albans, 
Vt. ; Hazel C. 10 , b. Apr. 8, 1897, at Northampton, Mass. 

Myron Clark 9 , b. Sept. 12, 1854, at Oswego, N. Y., gradu- 
ate of Brown University, m. June 12, 1S92, Gertrude 
Davenport (b. June 28, 1864, at Hadley, Mass.) dau. of 
Jesse Reed and Ellen C. (Marcy) Davenport. Lives in 
Providence, R. I. Children — Reginald Marcy 10 , b. Sept. 
14, 1895; Stanwood Davenport 10 , b. Dec. 21, 1898, d. 
July 13, 1899; Hamilton Eveleth 10 , b* June 14, 1900. 



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Dwight 8 Fowler, m. Jan'y 2, 1850, Mary E. Wood, and had 

. two boys, but can learn nothing- of them. 
John Nelson* Fowler, M. D., m. 1st, Sept. 20, 1853, Abigail 

H. Foster, (b. Feb. 13, 1832, d. July 4, i860), dau. of 

Heman and Clarissa Foster. 
Children: 

Heman E.'\ b. Sept. n, 1854, m. Sept. 26, 1878, Maria 
Louisa Benedict, of Vermontville, Mich., (b. March 30, 
1858). Children, all born in Fremont, Mich — Grace 
E.10, b. May 23, 1881, d. Aug. 20, 1881; Emma B.10, b. 
April 27, 1883, d. March 16, 1904; Olive L.io, b. April 
30, 1885; Mary A. 10 , b. July 6, 1887; Lucie M. 10, b. 
Sept. 26, 1890; Nelson B. 19 , b. Feb. 8, 1891. 

H. Alvin 9 , b. Dec. 3, 1856, m. 1st, Sept. 4, 1880, Mary E. 
Smith — children: Herman R. 10, b. June 28, 1881, d. 
Sept. 28, 1881; Maud L. 19 , b. July 18, 1883; m. 2nd, 
Feb. 22, 1892, Huldah L. Cochrane, (b. Nov. 8, 1870 at 
Ithaca, Mich.), live in Ithaca, Mich. 

John Nelson 9 , b. March 28, 1859, m. Nov. 12, 1885, Jennie 
M. Buck, (b. Sept. 20, 1858, at Linden, Mich)— children: 
Ransom A. 19 , b. Aug. 18, 1889, m. Gladys, b. July 12, 
1893, at Linden, Mich. 

Married 2nd, March 20, 1861, Emma S. Martin, (b. Sept. 
10, 1841, d. Jan'y 30, 1892), — child: Minnie E 9 , b. April 
it, 1865, m. Aug. 8, 1886, at Grand Rapids, Mich., Adel- 
bert O. Light, (b. July 19, 1863 at Granville, Mich.) — 
children: Raymond G. 10 , b. March 19, 1887 at Grand 
Rapids, Mich.; Ethel B. 10, b. March 9, 1889 at Grand 
Rapids; Wm. Nelson 10 , b. March 2, 1893 at Sherman, 
Mich; Arthur F. 19 , b. Oct. 18, 1896 at Sherman, Mich. 

William Fowler 1 m. 

Capt. William Fowler 2 m. Mary Tapp, about 1645. 

Mark Fowler 3 m. Mary , about 1679. 

John Fowler 4 m. Sarah Abbe, about 1707. 

Capt. Adijah Fowler 5 m. Abigail Bigelow, Dec. 18, 1745. 

Mark Fowled m. Mrs. Miriam (Sterling) Warner, Sept. 
n, 1777. 

Alvin Fowler? m. Olive Lord, Jan'y 24, 1819. 

Amos Fowlers, M. D., m. Martha Carolina Harris, Aug. 

29. 1850. 
Note. — For details of early generations of Fowler Family, see "A 
Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Ambrose Fowler, of Windsor, 
and Capt. Wm. Fowler of New Haven, Conn." A pamphlet found in 
most public libraries. 



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